Living Philosophy in Kierkegaard, Melville, and Others: Intersections of Literature, Philosophy, and Religion

by Edward F. Mooney

Book Overview

Edward F. Mooney takes us into the lived philosophies of Melville, Kierkegaard, Henry Bugbee, and others who write deeply in ways that bring philosophy and religion into the fabric of daily life, in its simplicities, crises, and moments of communion and joy. Along the way Mooney explores mediations on wilderness, on the enigma of self-deception, the role of maternal love and the pain of separations, and the pervasiveness of "difficult reality" where...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501357719
• ISBN13: 9781501357718
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"