Kierkegaard and the Philosophy of Love [Paperback]

Power, prominence, or wealth cant give real meaning to lifeonly love can. This is a vivid account of love and the story of how love becomes the lodestone of Kierkegaards varied and voluminous writing. In this fine and comprehensive book, Strawser shows how love stiches a self together and threads out to gently pull in friends and loved ones, giving verve and traction to a life.Michael Strawsers book. . . is an important contribution to understanding the universal human experience of love. . . . Strawsers phenomenological exploration of love in the writings of S?ren Kierkegaard offers valuable insights into the philosophers lifes work. . . Strawsers book is an approachable and engaging discussion that conveys the relevance of Kierkegaard for a contemporary world very much in need of more love.According to Michael Strawser, the topic of love has become the central focus of Kierkegaard research in the early twenty-first century.?Interpreting Kierkegaard as a phenomenological thinker, Strawser brings the ideas of a nineteenth-century author usefully?into dialogue with recent and contemporary philosophers of love and emotion. His discussion is thus aimed at readers who wish to understand Kierkegaard, or love, or both.Power, prominence, or wealth cant give real meaning to lifeonly love can. This is a vivid account of love and the story of how love becomes the lodestone of Kierkegaards varied and voluminous writing. In this fine and comprehensive book, Strawser shows how love stitches a self together and threads out to gently pull in friends and loved ones, giving verve and traction to a life.According to Michael Strawser, the topic of love has become the central focus of Kierkegaard research in the early twenty-first century.?Interpreting Kierkegaard as a phenomenological thinker, Strawser brings the ideas of a nineteenth-century author usefully?into dialogue with recent and contemporary philosophers of love and emotion. His discussion is thus aimed at readers lã#