Kierkegaardian Essays: A Festschrift in Honour of George Pattison

Søren Kierkegaard Argued That The Most Essential Truths Come To Light By Asking How...? This Innovative Collection Of Essays By Leading Scholars Focuses On This Questioning How?, Asking How We Should Relate To Ourselves, To Others, And To God; How We Should Be In The World; How We Can Become Human. The Result Is A Searching, Original Colloquium On What It Means To Be Kierkegaardian In The 21st Century. The Adjective Kierkegaardian Names Many Possibilities: Ways Of Philosophizing, Choosing, Loving, Looking, Listening, Reading, Writing, Teaching, Making Art, Praying, Going To Church - Or Not Going To Church. How Gestures To Subjectivity, One Of Kierkegaard's Most Fundamental Philosophical Categories, While What Signals An Objectifying Line Of Thought. The Authors Of These Essays Suggest That The Crucial Kierkegaardian Question Is Not What We Are And Ought To Do, But How We Can Remain True To The Finitude, Passivity, And Ambiguity Of Human Existence. While This Kierkegaardian How Is Often Acknowledged By Scholars, It Is Rarely Thematized Directly. Attending To It Elicits New Kinds Of Argument And Reflection. Kierkegaardian Essays Proposes A Fresh Approach To Kierkegaard, And Is Essential Reading For Experts And Students Alike.--publisher's Website. What Does It Mean To Be Human? / Ingolf Dalferth -- Teach Us To Care And Not To Care / Clare Carlisle -- Speculate Like A Kierkegaardian! / Daniel Whistler -- The Riddle Of Irony / Stephen Mulhall -- Interlude I : Wayward Intimacies / Noreen Khawaja -- A Smile From Every Child / Hugh S. Pyper -- Was It Love? : No, No, It Was Søren Kierkegaard / Iben Damgaard -- The Generous Eye / Joel D. S. Rasmussen -- On Love, Teaching, And Forgetting / Matthew D. Kirkpatrick -- Interlude Ii : Summon The Earnest Thought Of Death / Gordon Marino -- Vocation And The Voice Of Conscience / Claudia Welz -- From The Lily And The Bird, Let Us Learn : Nothing / Steven Shakespeare -- Melancholy And Modernity / Christopher B. Barnett -- Why Kierkegaard? : Seventy Theses, Declarations, And Expressions Of Thanks / Joakim Garff. Edited By Clare Carlisle And Steven Shakespeare. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.