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Taking Kierkegaard Personally : First Person Responses, Paperback / softback Book

Taking Kierkegaard Personally : First Person Responses Paperback / softback

Edited by Jamie Lorentzen, Gordon Marino

Part of the Mercer Kierkegaard Series series

Paperback / softback

Description

Taking Kierkegaard Personallyis a one-of-a-kind volume in which scholars from the world over address personal, existential lessons that Kierkegaard has taught them.

Papers were selected from the June 2018 International Kierkegaard Conference, sponsored by the Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College. The Conference's prompt—The Wisdom of Kierkegaard: What Existential Lessons Have You Learned from Him?—compelled scholars to drop their guards and write primarily in first person narrative instead of standard third person scholarly/professorial narrative.

Papers range from a preacher in Texas discussing how this white nineteenth-century Dane's thought speaks to black issues, to a university development director wondering what Kierkegaard can teach Silicon Valley executives, to a Danish scholar struggling with human autonomy versus dependence on God, to a Jewish scholar finding hope in this Danish Protestant's works in which existential alienation from the world is the norm, to a Nigerian scholar introducing Kierkegaard's ""single individual"" into his Ndi Igbo community (a tribe predicated not on the individual but the collective), to a Slovak scholar surviving a bad divorce, to an Hispanic scholar's passion to teach Kierkegaard along the U.S.-Mexico border to Hispanic students, to an American scholar fielding his father's questions about suicide, to other scholars suffering from and coping with deaths of parents, raising children, working in trauma units, finding the need for self-denial in flourishing countries, preaching valuable sermons, dealing with college campus/department politics, and living perfectly quotidian lives.

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