Kierkegaard: Existence and Identity in a Post-Secular World

by Alastair Hannay

Book Overview

In his perceptive and provocative new book, Alastair Hannay contests two prejudices that have dogged the appreciation of Soren Kierkegaard's writings. These are that to grasp their contemporary impact, the religious focus must be referred to his personal background, and that their varied voices mirror a fragmentation in his own relationship to self and society. It was for paying lip-service to their own values that Kierkegaard castigated his society,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350144681
• ISBN13: 9781350144682
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"