Kierkegaard and Freedom [Hardcover]

Kierkegaard and Freedom is a critical exploration of the ideas of Kierkegaard on the various problems surrounding the issue of human freedom. Kierkegaard's views here have been largely ignored by modern English-speaking philosophers. Through the combined efforts of eleven philosophers and scholars this book enndeavours to fill the gap by giving a clear presentation of Kierkegaard's position on such things as radical choice, autonomy, freedom and anxiety, necessity and fate, and self-deception, all the while critically assessing his contributions to one of philosophy's most perplexing problems.Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J.Giles Speculation and Despair: Metaphysical and Existential Perspectives on Kierkegaard; A.Rudd Kierkegaard, Self-interpretation, and Freedom; D.M.A.Campbell Autonomy in Kierkegaard's Either/Or; J.Disse Kierkegaard's Leap: Anxiety and Freedom; J.Giles Freedom and Modality; P.L?bcke The Idea of Fate in Kierkegaard's Thought; J.Watkin Freedom and the Immanent; M.Kosch Indirect Communication: Training in Freedom?; P.Rogers Freedom and Self-deception in Kierkegaard's Purity of Heart; D.Z.Phillips Kierkegaard: The Literature on Freedom; M. Weston Sublimity and the Experience of Freedom in Kierkegaard; G.Pattison IndexDAVID CAMPBELL Lecturer in Philosophy, Glasgow University JORG DISSE Acting Professor of Philosophy, University of Lucerne, Switzerland MICHELLE KOSCH Postdoctoral Fellow, Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark POUL L?BCKE Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Copenhagen GEORGE PATTISON Dean of Chapel, King's College, Cambridge D.Z. PHILLIPS Rush Rhees Professor, University of Wales, Swansea PETER ROGERS PhD Student, Lancaster University ANTHONY RUDD Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire JULIA WATKIN Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Tasmania MICHAEL WESTON Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Essex.