Acta Kierkegaardiana Volume IV
Kierkegaard and The Religious Crisis of the Nineteenth Century in Europe
In the wake of the Enlightenment, Europe in the nineteenth century was left in a deep religious crisis, which called into question most of the traditional Christian dogmas and beliefs. This volume begins by exploring some of the debates that characterized this crisis, and the reaction of particular thinkers to it. It goes onto explore Kierkegaard’s conception and response to the religious crisis of his age. How, exactly, does Kierkegaard characterize the religious crisis of his age? How is his work intended to solve that crisis? Moreover, does the religious crisis of the nineteenth century bear any similarity to our own contemporary ethical and religious dilemmas? If so, what solution can Kierkegaard’s work provide to our problems?
Contents
The Religious Crisis of the Nineteenth Century
Jon Stewart: Hegel’s Teleology of World Religions and the Disanalogy of the Lectures on the Philosophy ofReligion
István Czakó:Aufgehobene Unsterblichkeit: Die Rezeption von Hegels
Religionsphilosophie in der Unsterblichkeitsdebatte
Peter Šajda:Does Hegelian Philosophy ofReligion Distort Christian Dogmatics
and Ethics? (The Debate on Speculative Mysticism)
Istvan Czako: Becoming Immortal: the Historical Context of Kierkegaard’s Concept of Immortality
Heiko Schulzl:True Consciousness Dreaming. Feuerbach’s Critique ofReligion
Reconsidered
Daniel Conway:Revisiting the Death ofGod: On the Madness ofNietzsche’s
Madman
Patrick Stokes:The Science of the Dead: Proto-Spiritualism in Kierkegaard’s
Copenhagen
Kierkegaard’s Response to the Religious Crisis
Jamie Turnbull: Kierkegaard’s Religious, and Our Methodological, Crisis
Eric S. Nelson:Religious Crisis, Ethical Life, and Kierkegaard’s Critique of
Christendom
George Pattison:The Mysterious Family orWhy Kierkegaard NeverWrote a Play:
An Old Question Revisited
Andrew J. Burgess: Kierkegaard’s Taler, Moravian Reden?
Peder Jothen:Kierkegaard and the Crisis ofRighteousness: A Theological,
Epistemological and Civic Thematic
David Lawrence Coe:Taking Luther with a Grain of Salt: Kierkegaard’s Nineteenth Century Lutheran Corrective
Richard B. Purkarthofer:Some Remarks on Kierkegaard’s Method of Indirect Proof in The Book on Adler
Leo Stan: Modernity and Christian Offensiveness. An Ongoing Scandal
Bryan McCarthy:Living an Esthetic and Faithfully Religious Life on Kierkegaard’s
Terms
Acta Kierkegaardiana Volume III
Kierkegaard & Christianity
The theme of this third volume of the Acta Kierkegaardiana project goes to the very heart of Kierkegaard’s thought. The papers collected in this volume are testimony to a continued interest in Kierkegaard’s thinking about Christianity, and the challenge that that thinking presents. The stand that we as commentators and readers take on Kierkegaard’s views about Christianity, and the issue of how those views stand to the rest of his thought, bears upon: who we think Kierkegaard is; the nature of his work; as well as what we conceive of ourselves to be doing when we engage in Kierkegaard scholarship and commentary. Any Kierkegaard scholar worth his or her metal is going to admit that Kierkegaard’s work has something to do with Christianity, the important question is: what? In exploring this question, the present volume casts new light on the work and thought on one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of philosophy.
Contents
Alastair Hannay: Climacus for Our Time
Andrew Burgess: Kierkegaard’s Climacus on Christianity and Laughter
Jon Stewart: Kierkegaard’s Claim about the Relation between Philosophy and Christianity in the Journal AA
Istvan Czako: Becoming Immortal: the Historical Context of Kierkegaard’s Concept of Immortality
Jamie Turnbull: Kierkegaard’s Supernaturalism
Peter Sajda: “The wise men went another way”: Kierkegaard’s Dialogue with Fénelon and Tersteegen in the Summer of 1849
Eric Ziolkowski: Passion by Fashion: Kierkegaard, St. Francis, and Clothes
Simon Podmore: The Infinite Quality of Forgiveness: the (Im)possible and the (Un)forgivable
Abrahim Khan: Sin Before Christ in The Sickness Unto Death
Søren Landkildehus: Through a Veil of Tears: The Image of Christ in Kierkegaard’s Discourses on The Woman Who Was a Sinner
Leo Stan: God’s Exacting Agape of Singular Individuals: A Kierkegaardian Corrective
Walter Wietzke: What’s Love Got to do with Religiousness B?
Janne Kylliainen: Kierkegaard on Faith, Love and Equality
Seung-Goo Lee: Kierkegaard’s Understanding of a Genuine Christian
Mark Tietjen: Indirect Communication, and the Special Case of Christian Communication
Roman Kralik: Defending Faith: Did Kierkegaard Attack with Purity of Heart?
Stephen Leach: The Extraordinary and Christianity
Acta Kierkegaardiana Volume II
Kierkegaard & Great Philosophers
The present volume brings to the reader a set of articles focusing on Søren Kierkegaard’s connection to prominent figures in the Western intellectual tradition, with the aim of presenting Kierkegaard’s thought in the broader context of the history of philosophy and the history of ideas. The ideological legacy of the Danish thinker is analysed in connection with philosophers and theologians who yeilded inspiration for his thinking, in the light of the work of his contemporaries, and from the perspective of the reception of his thought in the 20th and 21st centuries. The studies collected in this volume are not limited exclusively for specialist readers of Kierkegaard’s philosophy; rather they are offered to all those who wish to become familiar with Kierkegaard’s place in the history of Western philosophy, theology, and literature.
Contents
Kierkegaard’s Predecessors and Contemporaries
Andrew Burgess: Kierkegaard’s Rhetoric and Aesthetics against the Background of Kant, Schlegel, and Hegel
Richard Purkarthofer: Trendelenburg und Kierkegaard: „Eine wunderliche Beziehung“
Stephen Leach: Socrates in Hamann and Kierkegaard
Patrick Stokes: Kierkegaard’s Uncanny Encounter with Schopenhauer, 1854
Peter Sajda: On Some Aspects of Kierkegaard’s Reading of Abraham a Sancta Clara
Simon Podmore: Struggling with God: Kierkegaard / Proudhon
Maria Binetti: Kierkegaard – Hegel: The Religious Stage in Speculative Terms
Manuel Caraza Salmeron: El erotismo musical. La Música en la “estética” kierkegaardiana
Milan Petkanic: The Possibility of Offence: Kierkegaard and Dostoyevsky’s The Grand InquisitorKierkegaard in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Martin Beck Matustik: The Scarcity of Singular Individuals in the Age of Globalization: A Kierkegaardian Response to Fundamentalism
Abrahim Khan: The Good and Modern Identity: Charles Taylor and Søren Kierkegaard
Jamie Turnbull: Kierkegaard and Contemporary Philosophy
Søren Landkildehus: Answering Stoicism: Kierkegaard vs. McDowell
Luis Guerrero: El silencio como contrapunto de la ética Kierkegaard – Derrida
Laura Llevadot: Kierkegaard y Zambrano: La ética de la escritura
Roman Kralik: On the Boundary: Kierkegaard and Tillich
Rafael Garcia Pavon / Mariano Robles Reyes: La decisión de existir por el absurdo: Albert Camus y Søren Kierkegaard, o Sísifo o Abraham
Andrej Demuth: Heidegger and the Shadows of Kierkegaard’s Thinking
Catalina Elena Dobre: Kierkegaard and the Romanian Culture (After Kierkegaard’s Example)
Postscript
Junius Stenseth: An Ant in the Woods
Roman Kralik: Šaľa: Kierkegaard in the Heart of Europe
