Kierkegaard and Death (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)

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.--pub. Desc. Knights And Knaves Of The Living Dead: Kierkegaard's Use Of Living Death As A Metaphor For Despair / George Connell -- To Die And Yet Not Die: Kierkegaard's Theophany Of Death / Simon D. Podmore -- Christian Hate: Death, Dying, And Reason In Pascal And Kierkegaard / Adam Buben -- Suicide And Despair / Marius Timmann Mjaaland -- Thinking Death Into Every Moment: The Existence-problem Of Dying In Kierkegaard's Postscript / Paul Muench -- Death And Ethics In Kierkegaard's Postscript / David D. Possen -- The Intimate Agency Of Death / Edward F. Mooney -- A Critical Perspective On Kierkegaard's At A Graveside / Gordon D. Marino -- Life-narrative And Death As The End Of Freedom: Kierkegaard On Anticipatory Resoluteness / John J. Davenport -- Heidegger And Kierkegaard On Death: The Existentiell And The Existential / Charles Guignon -- Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida: The Death Of The Other / Laura Llevadot -- Derrida, Judge William, And Death / Ian Duckles -- The Soft Weeping Of Desire's Loss: Recognition, Phenomenality, And The One Who Is Dead In Kierkegaard's Works Of Love / Jeremy J. Allen -- Duties To The Dead? Earnest Imagination And Remembrance / Patrick Stokes -- Kierkegaard's Understanding Of The Afterlife / Tamara Monet Marks. Edited By Patrick Stokes And Adam Buben. Proceedings Of A Conference Held In Dec. 2007 At St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "This impressive [anthology] succeeds admirably at demonstrating how the Kierkegaardian corpus presents . . . a philosophy of finite existence" ( Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews ). 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. Few philosophers have devoted such sustained, almost obsessive attention to the topic of death as Soren 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. Content: Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Knights and Knaves of the Living Dead: Kierkegaard's Use of Living Death as a Metaphor for Despair 2. To Die and Yet Not Die: Kierkegaard's Theophany of Death 3. Christian Hate: Death, Dying, and Reason in Pascal and Kierkegaard 4. Suicide and Despair 5. Thinking Death into Every Moment: The Existence-Problem of Dying in Kierkegaard's Postscript 6. Death and Ethics in Kierkegaard's Postscript 7. The Intimate Agency of Death 8.A Critical Perspective on Kierkegaard's "At a Graveside."