Works of Love in a World of Violence: Feminism, Kierkegaard, and the Limits of Self-Sacrifice

by Deidre Nicole Green

Drawing on the thought of Kant, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche in order to illuminate and interrogate feminist critiques of self-sacrifice, Deidre Nicole Green relies on Kierkegaard's view of Christian love to offer a constructive theological framework for limiting self-sacrifice that resists an overly simplistic identification of self-sacrifice with love. Although Kierkegaard's Works of Love deems Christian love essentially sacrificial, his view of love...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3161548450
• ISBN13: 9783161548451
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"