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Book SynopsisThis is the first English edition of a major work by the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Løgstrup (1905-81). It focuses on four main themes in Kierkegaard: his understanding of Christ and Christianity; his understanding of suffering in human existence; Christian vs. secular ethics; and Platonistic influences on Kierkegaard.
Trade ReviewThe insightful introductions are written by well-known Løgstrup scholars, and the translations are fluent and precise...Knud E. Løgstrup is a philosophical force to be reckoned with. * Michiel Herman, International Journal of Philosophy and Theology *
Table of ContentsTranslators' Preface Acknowledgements A Chronology of Løgstrup's Life Introduction German Foreword Foreword Part I: Christianity Without the Historical Jesus 1: The Christian Message is Derived from Paradoxicality, and Jesus's Proclamation and Works are not Integral to Christianity 2: The Question of the Occasion for Faith According to Kierkegaard 3: The Approximation Problem 4: An Alternative to Kierkegaard's View 5: The Paradoxicality 6: The Interpretation of the Crucifixion 7: Following Christ Part II: Sacrifice 1: Suffering 2: Christianity and the Naturally Generated and Culturally Formed Communities Part III: The Movement of Infinity 1: The Infinite Movement of Resignation 2: Taking Over Concrete Existence 3: The Abstract and Negative Self 4: Sartre's and Kierkegaard's Portrayal of Demonic Self-Enclosedness 5: The Absolute Good 6: Conformity and the Collision Between Faith in God and the Neighbour 7: The Sovereign Expressions of Life and the Question of the Freedom or Bondage of the Will 8: Taking Over the Situation Through the Sovereign Expressions of Life 9: How the Ethical Life of the People is Lost, Conformism, and How the Relation of Spirit is Doubled 10: Morality Is the Provision of Substitute Motives for Substitute Actions 11: The Levelling Down of Finitude 12: Consciousness of Guilt 13: Action and Attitude of Mind Part IV: Nothingness 1: Knowledge as It Is Understood in Transcendental Philosophy, and Existence 2: The Synthesis Between Infinity and Finitude, Between Eternity and Temporality 3: The Doubling of the Relation of Spirit 4: Nothingness and Action 5: Knowledge and Reflection Editors' Notes Select Bibliography Index
