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The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard

The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard

Hardcover

Series: Philosophy of Religion

PhilosophyReligion General

ISBN10: 0253006473
ISBN13: 9780253006479
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Mar 4 2013
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Richard McCombs presents S ren 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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