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Kierkegaard and Death

Adam Buben editor Patrick Stokes editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Published:20th Oct '11

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Death and dying in the work of Søren Kierkegaard

Discusses death and dying in Kierkegaard's work

Few philosophers have devoted such sustained, almost obsessive attention to the topic of death as Søren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard and Death brings together new work on Kierkegaard's multifaceted discussions of death and provides a thorough guide to the development, in various texts and contexts, of Kierkegaard's ideas concerning death. Essays by an international group of scholars take up essential topics such as dying to the world, living death, immortality, suicide, mortality and subjectivity, death and the meaning of life, remembrance of the dead, and the question of the afterlife. While bringing Kierkegaard's philosophy of death into focus, this volume connects Kierkegaard with important debates in contemporary philosophy.

Anyone, from scholar to Kierkegaard dabbler, can find something worthwhile here. Even those without any familiartiy with Kierkegaard might find this book an interesting starting point for discovering his work.

* Lutheran Quarterly *

[O]ne theme that runs throughout this impressive volume is that, for a variety of reasons, the thought of death is intimately related to the task of living well . . . Kierkegaard and Death succeeds admirably at demonstrating how the Kierkegaardian corpus presents us with something like a philosophy of finite existence, in a way that will open up avenues of further research and should also serve as essential reading for anyone who believes that reflecting on human mortality could perhaps be a fruitful enterprise after all.

* Notre Dame Philosophical Revie

ISBN: 9780253223524

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 499g

336 pages