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This is the first English edition of a major work by the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Løgstrup (1905-81). It focuses on four main themes in Kierkegaard: his understanding of Christ and Christianity; his understanding of suffering in human existence; Christian vs. secular ethics; and Plato...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Løgstrup, K. E. (Knud Ejler), 1905-1981 (Author)
Other Authors: Finck, Hans (Translator), Niekerk, Kees van Kooten, 1946- (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Selected Works of K. E. Logstrup Series.
Subjects:
Kierkegaard, Søren, > 1813-1855 > Criticism and interpretation.
Kierkegaard, Søren, > 1813-1855
Christianity > Philosophy.
Christianisme > Philosophie.
Religion & beliefs.
Religion.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Series page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Translators' Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • A Chronology of Løgstrup's Life and Works
  • Introduction
  • 1. Controverting Kierkegaard
  • 2. Background and Context
  • 3. Controverting Kierkegaard: The Main Themes of the Book
  • German Forewordi
  • Foreword
  • Part I: Christianity without the Historical Jesus
  • 1. The Christian Message Is Derived from Paradoxicality, and Jesus's Proclamation and Works Are Not Integral to Christianity
  • 2. The Question of the Occasion for Faith According to Kierkegaard
  • 3. The Approximation Problem
  • 4. An Alternative to Kierkegaard's View
  • 5. The Paradoxicality
  • 6. The Interpretation of the Crucifixion
  • 7. Following Christ
  • Part II: The Sacrifice
  • 1. Suffering
  • 2. Christianity and the Naturally Generated and Culturally Formed Communities
  • Part III: The Movement of Infinity
  • 1. The Infinite Movement of Resignation
  • 2. Taking over Concrete Existence
  • 3. The Abstract and Negative Self
  • 4. Sartre's and Kierkegaard's Portrayal of Demonic Self-Enclosedness
  • 5. The Absolute Good
  • 6. Conformity and the Collision between Faith in God and the Neighbour
  • 7. The Sovereign Expressions of Life and the Question of the Freedom or Bondage of the Will
  • 8. Taking over the Situation through the Sovereign Expressions of Life
  • 9. How the Ethical Life of the People Is Lost, Conformism, and How the Relation of Spirit Is Doubled
  • 10. Morality is the Provision of Substitute Motives for Substitute Actions
  • 11. The Levelling Down of Finitude
  • 12. Consciousness of Guilt
  • 13. Action and Attitude of Mind
  • Part IV: Nothingness
  • 1. Knowledge as It Is Understood in Transcendental Philosophy, and Existence
  • 2. The Synthesis between Infinity and Finitude, between Eternity and Temporality
  • 3. The Doubling of the Relation of Spirit
  • 4. Nothingness and Action
  • 5. Knowledge and Reflection
  • Editors' Notes
  • German Foreword
  • Part I
  • Part II
  • Part III
  • Part IV
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index