Passionate reason : making sense of Kierkegaard's Philosophical fragments /
C. Stephen Evans.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, �1992.
- 1 online resource (xii, 205 pages).
- The Indiana series in the philosophy of religion .
- Indiana series in the philosophy of religion. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On reading Kierkegaard and Johannes Climacus -- An ironical thought experiment -- Constructing an alternative to the Socratic view of "the truth" -- The poetry of the incarnation -- Thought, passion, and paradox -- The echo of offense -- Reason and the paradox -- Belief and the will -- Faith and history -- Christianity in the contemporary world.
Use copy
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.
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212