Kierkegaard, Communication, and Virtue Authorship As Edification

Name: Kierkegaard, Communication, and Virtue Authorship As Edification
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ISBN: 9780253008626

ISBN-10: 025300862X

ISBN-13: 9780253008626

Edition: 2013

Authors: Mark A. Tietjen

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In contrast to recent postmodern and deconstructionist readings, Mark A. Tietjen believes that the purpose behind Kierkegaard's writings is the moral and religious improvement of the reader. Tietjen defends Kierkegaard against claims that certain features of his works, such as pseudonymity, indirect communication, irony, and satire are self-deceived or deceitful. Kierkegaard, Communication, and Virtue reveals how they are directly related to the virtues or moral issues being discussed. In fact, Tietjen argues, the manner of presentation is a critical element of the philosophical message being conveyed. Reading broadly in Kierkegaard's writings, he develops a hermeneutics of trust that fully…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Sigla


Introduction: Philosophy and Edification



Jest and/or Earnestness



Blunt Reading



Alternatives to Difference



Communicating Capability



Suspicion or Trust



Deconstructing The Point of View



Trusting The Point of View



Faith and Virtue



The Pseudonymous Dialectic of Faith, I



The Pseudonymous Dialectic of Faith, II


Conclusions: Kierkegaard, Virtue, and Edification


Notes


Index