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The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard

The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard - Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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ISBN: 9780253006479
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 198.9
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 264
Weight: 536g
Height: 236mm
Width: 164mm
Spine width: 31mm