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The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard

By Kierkegaard , Søren , Sren; McCombs , Richard Phillip; Kierkegaard

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
978-0-253-00657-8, 0253006570, 0253006473, 978-0-253-00647-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3645537 bytes)
Series
Indiana series in the philosophy of religion
Pages
244\260
Time added
2016-01-18 05:00:00
-- 1813-1855 PHILOSOPHY / Religio-- 1813-1855. Faith and reason ---- 1813-1855. PHILOSOPHY -- HistoKierkegaardSørenSren

Description

Richard McCombs presents Søren Kierkegaard as an author who deliberately pretended to be irrational in many of his pseudonymous writings in order to provoke his readers to discover the hidden and paradoxical rationality of faith. Focusing on pseudonymous works by Johannes Climacus, McCombs interprets Kierkegaardian rationality as a striving to become a self consistently unified in all its dimensions: thinking, feeling, willing, acting, and communicating. McCombs argues that Kierkegaard’s strategy of feigning irrationality is sometimes brilliantly instructive, but also partly misguided. This fresh reading of Kierkegaard addresses an essential problem in the philosophy of religion―the relation between faith and reason.

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