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Author Evans, C. Stephen, author

Title Passionate reason : making sense of Kierkegaard's Philosophical fragments / C. Stephen Evans
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1992]
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1992
©1992
©1992

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Description xii, 205 pages ; 22 cm
Series The Indiana series in the philosophy of religion
Indiana series in the philosophy of religion.
Contents 1. On Reading Kierkegaard and Johannes Climacus -- 2. An Ironical Thought Experiment -- 3. Constructing an Alternative to the Socratic View of "The Truth" -- 4. The Poetry of the Incarnation -- 5. Thought, Passion, and Paradox -- 6. The Echo of Offense -- 7. Reason and the Paradox -- 8. Belief and the Will -- 9. Faith and History -- 10. Christianity in the Contemporary World
Summary Passionate Reason situates Kierkegaard's philosophy in the context of postmodern religious thought, providing a contemporary reading of Fragments as a challenge to both the modern Enlightenment critique of reason and the postmodern abandonment of truth
Johannes Climacus, Soren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author of Philosophical Fragments, "invents" a religion suspiciously resembling Christianity as an alternative to the assumption that humans possess the Truth within themselves. Through this literary device, Climacus raises in a fresh and audacious way age-old questions about the relation of Christian faith to human reason. Is the idea of a human incarnation of God logically coherent? Is religious faith the product of a voluntary choice? In a comprehensive discussion of one of Kierkegaard's most important books, C. Stephen Evans elucidates Kierkegaard's novel explanation that the tension between faith and reason must be understood as a consequence of the passionate character of reason itself
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Kierkegaard, SÃ ̧ren, 1813-1855. Philosophiske smuler
Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855. Philosophiske smuler
Religion -- Philosophy.
LC no. 91030417
ISBN 0253207223 (paperback: alk. paper)
0253320739 (alk. paper)