Kierkégaard

1972 · réf. 44498AB — 1972. Montreal/ London McGill-Queen's University Press 1972. 21cm. X167 pages. Original hardcover with illustrated hardcover in Protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Søren Aabye Kierkegaard 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855 was a Danish philosopher theologian poet social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.He wrote critical texts on organized religion Christendom morality ethics psychology and the philosophy of religion displaying a fondness for metaphor irony and parables. Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives as a "single individual" giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment.He was against literary critics who defined idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time and thought that Swedenborg Hegel Goethe Fichte Schelling Schlegel and Hans Christian Andersen were all "understood" far too quickly by "scholars".Kierkegaard's theological work focuses on Christian ethics the institution of the Church the differences between purely objective proofs of Christianity the infinite qualitative distinction between man and God and the individual's subjective relationship to the God-Man Jesus the Christ which came through faith. Wikipedia hardcover