Synopses & Reviews
Kierkegaard and Freedom is a critical exploration of the ideas of Kierkegaard on the various problems surrounding the issue of human freedom. Kierkegaard's views here have been largely ignored by modern English-speaking philosophers. Through the combined efforts of eleven philosophers and scholars this book enndeavours to fill the gap by giving a clear presentation of Kierkegaard's position on such things as radical choice, autonomy, freedom and anxiety, necessity and fate, and self-deception, all the while critically assessing his contributions to one of philosophy's most perplexing problems.
About the Author
James Giles is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guam and author of
The Nature of Sexual Desire and
No Self to be Found: The Search for Personal Identity.
Table of Contents
Introduction--J. Giles * Speculation and Despair: Metaphysical and Existential Perspectives on Kierkegaard--A. Rudd * Kierkegaard, Self-interpretation, and Freedom--D.M.A. Campbell * Autonomy in Kierkegaard's Either/Or--J. Disse * Kierkegaard's Leap: Anxiety and Freedom--J. Giles * Freedom and Modality--P. Lübcke * The Idea of Fate in Kierkegaard's Thought--J. Watkin * Freedom and the Immanent--M.Kosch * Indirect Communication: Training in Freedom?--P. Rogers * Freedom and Self-deception in Kierkegaard's
Purity of Heart --D.Z. Phillips * Kierkegaard: The Literature on Freedom--M. Weston * Sublimity and the Experience of Freedom in Kierkegaard--G. Pattison
Introduction--J. Giles * Speculation and Despair: Metaphysical and Existential Perspectives on Kierkegaard--A. Rudd * Kierkegaard, Self-interpretation, and Freedom--D.M.A. Campbell * Autonomy in Kierkegaard's Either/Or--J. Disse * Kierkegaard's Leap: Anxiety and Freedom--J. Giles * Freedom and Modality--P. Lübcke * The Idea of Fate in Kierkegaard's Thought--J. Watkin * Freedom and the Immanent--M.Kosch * Indirect Communication: Training in Freedom?--P. Rogers * Freedom and Self-deception in Kierkegaard's Purity of Heart --D.Z. Phillips * Kierkegaard: The Literature on Freedom--M. Weston * Sublimity and the Experience of Freedom in Kierkegaard--G. Pattison