Paradoxical Rationality of Sï¿½ren Kierkegaard

Name: Paradoxical Rationality of Sï¿½ren Kierkegaard
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ISBN: 9780253006479

ISBN-10: 0253006473

ISBN-13: 9780253006479

Edition: 2013

Authors: Richard McCombs

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Søren Kierkegaard deliberately feigned irrationality in many of his pseudonymous writings in order to present a rational argument about reason and faith. Richard McCombs posits that Kierkegaard's strategy of revealing the philosophical and religious underpinnings of his thought was both instructive and misguided. Focusing on pseudonymous works by Johannes Climacus and Anti-Climacus, McCombs discusses Kierkegaard's irrationality and the manner in which it bolsters important truths about rationality. He reveals Kierkegaard striving for a single, integrated self that thinks, feel, wills, acts, and communicates with purpose. This fresh reading of Kierkegaard engages an essential problem in the…

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List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 3/4/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.17" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



A Pretense of Irrationalism



Paradoxical Rationality



Reverse Theology



The Subtle Power of Simplicity



A Critique of Indirect Communication



The Figure of Socrates and the Climacean Capacity of Paradoxical Reason



The Figure of Socrates and the Downfall of Paradoxical Reason



The Proof of Paradoxical Reason


Notes


Bibliography


Index