| Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love Contributor(s): Hall, Amy Laura (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521893119 ISBN-13: 9780521893114 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $48.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: This is a major study of Kierkegaard and love. Amy Laura Hall explores Kierkegaard's description of love's treachery, difficulty, and hope, reading his Works of Love as a text that both deciphers and complicates the central books in his pseudonymous canon: Fear and Trembling, Repetition, Either/Or, and Stages on Life's Way. In all of these works, the characters are, as in real life, complex and incomplete, and the conclusions are perplexing. Hall argues that a spiritual void brings each text into being, and her interpretation is as much about faith as about love. In a style that is both scholarly and lyrical, she intimates answers to some of the puzzles, making a poetic contribution to ethics and the philosophy of religion. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Philosophy - Religion | Christian Living - General - Religion | Christianity - General |
| Dewey: 241.4 |
| LCCN: 2002073818 |
| Lexile Measure: 1470 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.96" W x 9.06" (0.74 lbs) 236 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This major study of Kierkegaard and love explores Kierkegaard's description of love's treachery, difficulty, and hope. It reads his Works of Love as a text that both deciphers and complicates the central books in his pseudonymous canon: Fear and Trembling, Repetition, Either/Or and Stages on Life's Way. Amy Laura Hall argues that a spiritual void brings each text into being, and her interpretation is as much about faith as about love. Her scholarly and lyrical style makes this study a poetic contribution to ethics and the philosophy of religion. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hall, Amy Laura: - Amy Laura Hall is Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at The Divinity School, Duke University, North Carolina. |