Kierkegaard and Consciousness (eBook)

Adi Shmueli (Autor)

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2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7110-0 (ISBN)

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Kierkegaard's philosophy is the description of the structure and behavior of human consciousness. Adi Shmueli reconstructs that philosophy by showing that it always reflects the structure in question, and thus provides a useful key to Kierkegaard's work. Mr. Shmueli approaches his task by analyzing first the aesthetic, ethical, and religious stages of life as successive steps in the gradual awakening of consciousness. He then describes the alienation of consciousness, of which Kierkegaard speaks in all his works, and discusses Kierkegaard's theory of indirect communication, philosophical action whose aim is to awaken consciousness in order to rescue it from alienation. Studying Kierkegaard's observations on Christianity as indirect communication, Professor Shmueli deals also with his reflections on the philosophical problem of truth. His concluding chapter discusses the temporality and historicity of human consciousness. Quotations, taken primarily from accessible English translations, are generously provided to put the reader in direct contact with Kierkegaard's own words.Originally published in 1971.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: absurdity • Ambiguity • Anguish • anonymity • Antihero • arbitrariness • Archimedean Point • Baruch Spinoza • boldness • Boredom • Calculation • Christian Ethics • Christianity • Cogito ergo sum • Concept • Conceptions of God • Conscience • Consciousness • Contradiction • creation myth • Dasein • David Hume • Delusion • Determination • Dialectic • dichotomy • Dizziness • either/or • eo ipso • Evil • Existence • existence of god • Existentialism • facticity • fallacy • Fear and Trembling • Figure of Speech • Form of life (philosophy) • God • Good and evil • Henri Bergson • Historicity • humiliation • humility • Immanence • Immutability (theology) • Individualism • Irony • Jacques Derrida • knight of faith • Laziness • Leveling (philosophy) • Logical truth • Manifestation of God • Materialism • meekness • Morality • moral responsibility • Multitude • nonbeliever • Objectivity (philosophy) • Omnipotence • phenomenon • Philosopher • philosophical fragments • philosophical theory • Philosophy • pity • Positivism • PostScript • Potentiality and actuality • Presumption (canon law) • Reality • Religion • Religiosity • Renunciation • Romanticism • sanity • Selfishness • self-love • seriousness • Sign of contradiction • Socratic method • Solipsism • Søren Kierkegaard • Spirituality • Subjectivity • Substance theory • Suggestion • Tautology (rhetoric) • temporality • The Misunderstanding • Theory of Forms • The Philosopher • The Sickness unto Death • Thought • Tian • Uncertainty • verificationism • Works of Love
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7110-7 / 1400871107
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7110-0 / 9781400871100