Patrick Sheil

Kierkegaard and Levinas

The Subjunctive Mood

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Produktbeschreibung

The Danish Christian existentialist Sÿren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) and the Jewish Lithuanian-born French interpreter of modern phenomenology Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) have enabled theology and philosophy to illuminate and confront one another in radical and important ways. This book addresses the theological and philosophical thought of both Kierkegaard and Levinas with a focus on the special form that exists in the grammar of many languages for cases of uncertainty, possibility, hypothesis and for expressions of hope: the subjunctive mood. As well as presenting arguments and observations about Kierkegaard and Levinas through an analysis of the subjunctive mood, Patrick Sheil offers an interesting and accessible way into the thought of these two major European philosophers and he explores a wide range of Kierkegaardian and Levinasian texts throughout.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 739g
• ISBN-13: 9780754617112
• ISBN-10: 0754617114
• Artikelnr.: 31306392

Autorenporträt

Patrick Sheil read English and Modern Languages at King's College Cambridge, where he then completed an M.Phil. degree, as well as the doctorate on which this book is based. He is now a news writer and web developer for Cambridgeshire County Council.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Identity and the subjunctive
Representing the seducer
Interrupting philosophy: the complaint about knowledge
Transcendence and negativity
The moodiness of the subjunctive
The accusation of ethics
Working through love: the subjunctive hopes all things
Freedom
Suffering, faith and forgiveness
Concluding with the unscientific
Bibliography
Index.