Kierkegaardian Essays: A Festschrift in Honour of George Pattison

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Soren 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.