Kierkegaard: Concluding Unscientific PostscriptKierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript is a classic of existential literature. It concludes the first and richest phase of Kierkegaard's pseudonymous authorship and is the text that philosophers look to first when attempting to define Kierkegaard's own philosophy. Familiar Kierkegaardian themes are introduced in the work, including truth as subjectivity, indirect communication, the leap, and the impossibility of forming a philosophical system for human existence. The Postscript sums up the aims of the preceding pseudonymous works and opens the way to the next part of Kierkegaard's increasingly tempestuous life: it can thus be seen as a cornerstone of his philosophical thought. This volume offers the work in a new and accessible translation by Alastair Hannay, together with an introduction that sets the work in its philosophical and historical contexts. |
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The Postscript as a new approach to the problem of the Crumbs Philosophical Crumbs had taken up the question of how an eternal happi- ness could be based on something that was simply historical . The ques- tion was one that had been put ...
The Postscript as a new approach to the problem of the Crumbs Philosophical Crumbs had taken up the question of how an eternal happi- ness could be based on something that was simply historical . The ques- tion was one that had been put ...
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... Postscript ' unscientific ' ? Another interesting detail is the history of the Postscript's title . Up until his preparation of the fair copy , the working title that Kierkegaard had used was Concluding Simple - Minded ( eenfoldig ) ...
... Postscript ' unscientific ' ? Another interesting detail is the history of the Postscript's title . Up until his preparation of the fair copy , the working title that Kierkegaard had used was Concluding Simple - Minded ( eenfoldig ) ...
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Concluding Unscientific Postscript ( West Lafayette , IN : Purdue University Press , 1996 ) . Several collections include useful essays on the Postscript as well as some that can help to place this work in a wider context . There is the ...
Concluding Unscientific Postscript ( West Lafayette , IN : Purdue University Press , 1996 ) . Several collections include useful essays on the Postscript as well as some that can help to place this work in a wider context . There is the ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
The historical view | 21 |
The speculative view | 44 |
Copyright | |
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