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PASSIONATE REASON
MAKING SENSE OF KIERKEGAARD'S PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENTS

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C. Stephen Evans

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0253320739

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9780253320735

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INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 November, 1992

Pages:

224

Description:

Is religious faith the product of a voluntary choice? In a comprehensive discussion of one of Kierkegaard's most important books, the author 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.

Synopsis:

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. 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.

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