Kierkegaardian Essays by Clare Carlisle, Steven Shakespeare - 9783110741995

De Gruyter

Kierkegaardian EssaysA Festschrift in Honour of George Pattison\nAuthor(s): Clare Carlisle, Steven Shakespeare\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: De Gruyter, Germany\nImprint: De Gruyter\nISBN-13: 9783110741995, 978-3110741995\nSynopsis\nSren Kierkegaard argued that the most essential truths come to light by asking \""How?\"" This innovative collection of essays by leading scholars focuses on this questioning \""How?\"", asking how we should relate to ourselves, to others, and to God; how we should be in the world; how we can become human. The result is a searching, original colloquium on what it means to be Kierkegaardian in the 21st century. The adjective \""Kierkegaardian\"" names many possibilities: ways of philosophizing, choosing, loving, looking, listening, reading, writing, teaching, making art, praying, going to church or not going to church. \""How\"" gestures to subjectivity, one of Kierkegaards most fundamental philosophical categories, while \""What\"" signals an objectifying line of .