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Kierkegaard: A Legacy by Example

by Alastair Hannay
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781350144682
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
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  • Pages: 144
  • Original Price: USD 30.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 137 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Religious, Christian Theology / Apologetics, and Movements / Existentialism

In his perceptive and provocative new book, Alastair Hannay contests two prejudices that have dogged the appreciation of Soren Kierkegaard's writings. These are that to grasp their contemporary impact, the religious focus must be referred to his personal background, and that their varied voices mirror a fragmentation in his own relationship to self and society. It was for paying lip-service to their own values that Kierkegaard castigated his society, his diagnosis being that this was one of many ways in which more pressing and disturbing questions of existence were typically evaded.

It is in the renowned thinker's own struggle for selfhood that Hannay sees his prescient anticipation of the current focus on issues relating to integration, acceptance and identity. By cultivating a role as the social misfit within his innate exceptionality Kierkegaard deliberately exposed himself to the problems to which an age gripped by 'identity politics' is now responding. By cleverly examining the relation between his richly conceived polemics and Kierkegaard's own preoccupation with identity, Hannay has written an essential new text for Kierkegaard scholars and students of Continental philosophy and existentialism.

Hannay, Alastair: - Alastair Hannay is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo. He has published numerous articles and books on Kierkegaard, including Kiekegaard: A Biography (2001) and Kierkegaard and Philosophy: Selected Essays (2003), and is most recently author of Hello and Goodbye, Horace Hardcover (2020).

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