Description
Soren Kierkegaard is one of the prophets of the contemporary age, a man whose acute observations on modern European life might have been written yesterday, whose work anticipated fundamental developments in psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and the critique of mass culture by more than a century.
John D. Caputo offers a compelling account of Kierkegaard as a thinker of particular relevance in our postmodern times, who set off a revolution that counts Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida among its heirs. His conceptions of truth as a self-transforming "deed" and his haunting account of the "single individual" seem to have been written especially with us in mind.
Extracts include Kierkegaard's classic reading of the story of Abraham and Isaac, the revolutionary theory that truth is subjectivity, and his groundbreaking analysis of modern bourgeois life.
Author: John D. Caputo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780393330786
ISBN10: 0393330788
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern
- Philosophy | Criticism
John D. Caputo offers a compelling account of Kierkegaard as a thinker of particular relevance in our postmodern times, who set off a revolution that counts Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida among its heirs. His conceptions of truth as a self-transforming "deed" and his haunting account of the "single individual" seem to have been written especially with us in mind.
Extracts include Kierkegaard's classic reading of the story of Abraham and Isaac, the revolutionary theory that truth is subjectivity, and his groundbreaking analysis of modern bourgeois life.
Author: John D. Caputo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780393330786
ISBN10: 0393330788
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern
- Philosophy | Criticism