Kierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence

by Steven Shakespeare

Book Overview

Kierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence challenges the standard view that Kierkegaard's God is infinitely other than the world. It argues that his work immerses us in the paradoxical nature of existence itself, and opposes any flight into another world. Shakespeare shows that Kierkegaard's texts cannot be contained within an orthodox Christian framework. In a daring series of readings, we find the paradox figured in ways which refuse the judgment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137386754
• ISBN13: 9781137386755
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"