Kierkegaard's Livingroom: Faith and History in The Philosophical Fragments 9780773568747

In Kierkegaard's Livingroom David Mercer weaves his way through the Philosophical Fragments, bringing the reader a

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Kierkegaard's Livingroom: Faith and History in The Philosophical Fragments
 9780773568747

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Elephant in the Living-Room
i. Forceful Currents
ii. The Hegelian Knot
iii. Kierkegaard's Response to Plato's Temporal Present
2 The Preliminary Discussion of History and Its Structure in Either/Or
i. Relation as Consciousness
ii. The Value of Architecture, Sculpture, Art, Music, and Poetry in the Historical
iii. Poetry as a Historical Expression
iv. The Characters and the Historical
v. The Ethical and the Historical
vi. Marriage as a Historical Expression
vii. Outer and Inner History
3 The Poetic Study of the Temporal and the Eternal in Philosophical Fragments
i. The "Thought-Project" in "A": Can the Truth Be Learned?
ii. The 'Thought-Project" in "B": Can the Truth Be Learned?
iii. Kierkegaard's Rationale for the Divine Teacher
4 The Puzzle of the Absolute Paradox
i. The Assumption
ii. The Frontier
iii. The Nature of Sin
iv. The Offence
5 The Condition of the Follower
i. The Contemporary Follower
ii. The Gift of Faith
iii. The Advantage of the Contemporary
6 The Role of the Necessary in the Past and the Future
i. The Purpose of the "Interlude"
ii. What Is the Effect of Coming into Existence?
iii. The Nature of the Necessary
iv. The Possibility of Freedom in the Necessary
v. The Nature of the Historical
vi. The Certainty of the Past
vii. The Past as a Subject
viii. The Historian's Subject
ix. The Foundation of Belief
x. The Application of What Has Been Discovered
7 The One Who Comes after the Event
i. The Next Generation of Followers
ii. An "If/Then" Proposition
iii. The Awareness
iv. The Relation between the Types of Facts
v. The Absolute Fact
vi. Objections
8 Sacred History
i. Christ and History
ii. The Problem of Scripture
iii. The Relation of Faith and History
9 Kierkegaard's Place in the Current Debate
i. The Modern Confusion
ii. Kierkegaard and the Philosophy of History
iii. Kierkegaard and the Value of the Incarnation
iv. Kierkegaard's Value in the Modern Debate
v. Kierkegaard and Feminism
vi. The Moral Issue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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