Research Catalog

Title

Taking Kierkegaard personally : first person responses / edited by Jamie Lorentzen & Gordon Marino.

Publication

• Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lorentzen, Jamie
• Marino, Gordon Daniel, 1952-

Description

xviii, 350 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Taking Kierkegaard Personally: First Person Responses is a one-of-a-kind volume in which scholars from the world over address personal, existential lessons that Kierkegaard has taught them. Papers were selected from the June 2018 International Kierkegaard Conference, sponsored by the Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College. The Conference's prompt-The Wisdom of Kierkegaard: What Existential Lessons Have You Learned from Him?-compelled scholars to drop their guards and write primarily in first person narrative instead of standard third person scholarly/professorial narrative. Papers range from a preacher in Texas discussing how this white nineteenth-century Dane's thought speaks to black issues, to a university development director wondering what Kierkegaard can teach Silicon Valley executives, to a Danish scholar struggling with human autonomy versus dependence on God, to a Jewish scholar finding hope in this Danish Protestant's works in which existential alienation from the world is the norm, to a Nigerian scholar introducing Kierkegaard's "single individual" into his Ndi Igbo community (a tribe predicated not on the individual but the collective), to a Slovak scholar surviving a bad divorce, to an Hispanic scholar's passion to teach Kierkegaard along the U.S.-Mexico border to Hispanic students, to an American scholar fielding his father's questions about suicide, to other scholars suffering from and coping with deaths of parents, raising children, working in trauma units, finding the need for self-denial in flourishing countries, preaching valuable sermons, dealing with college campus/department politics, and living perfectly quotidian lives"--

Subject

• Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855
• Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 > Religion
• Becoming (Philosophy)
• Religion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JFE 21-2319

ISBN

• 9780881467703
• 0881467707

LCCN

• 2020027627
• 40030256575

OCLC

1157452830

Title

Taking Kierkegaard personally : first person responses / edited by Jamie Lorentzen & Gordon Marino.

Publisher

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Lorentzen, Jamie, editor.

Marino, Gordon Daniel, 1952- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40030256575

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2319