Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love
Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love
This is a major study of Kierkegaard and love. Amy Laura Hall explores Kierkegaard's description of love's treachery, difficulty, and hope, reading his Works of Love as a text that both deciphers and complicates the central books in his pseudonymous canon: Fear and Trembling, Repetition, Either/Or, and Stages on Life's Way. In all of these works, the characters are, as in real life, complex and incomplete, and the conclusions are perplexing. Hall argues that a spiritual void brings each text into being, and her interpretation is as much about faith as about love. In a style that is both scholarly and lyrical, she intimates answers to some of the puzzles, making a poetic contribution to ethics and the philosophy of religion.
- A major study of Kierkegaard and love
- Hall's style is close and homiletic, the latter being Kierkegaard's aim in his own writing
- Makes a valuable contribution to ethics and the philosophy of religion
Reviews & endorsements
'This is the most analytically persuasive and, at the same time, homiletically moving interpretation of Kierkegaard's corpus as a whole of which I know.' George Lindbeck, Yale Divinity School
'Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love does make several welcome corrections to the received interpretation of Kierkegaard … Hall's work offers us an extremely contentious but nevertheless supportable and scholarly reading of Kierkegaard … clarification, reasoned provocation and insightful exposition …'. The Heythrop Journal
Product details
August 2002Paperback
9780521893114
236 pages
230 × 151 × 12 mm
0.34kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The call to confession in Kierkegaard's Works of Love
- 2. Provoking the question: deceiving ourselves in Fear and Trembling
- 3. The poet, the vampire, and the girl in Repetition with Works of Love
- 4. The married man as master thief in Either/Or
- 5. Seclusion and disclosure in Stages on Life's Way
- 6. On the way.
