Richard Mccombs

Art and Praise in Kierkegaard's Works of Love (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since art is essential to the love of one's neighbor as oneself and to love's chief goal of building up one another, we cannot understand love without also understanding its art. Observing that praise is ubiquitous in Søren Kierkegaard's writings, Richard McCombs interprets Kierkegaard's Works of Love as a eulogy of love's arts of forgiveness, peace-making, and building up one's neighbor in maturity and charity. Kierkegaard stresses love's ability to achieve results, calling love irresistible and almost magical in overcoming obstacles to its purposes; living the life of faith and love involves skillful attention to the specificity of the episodes in an individual's life, and the creative imagining of new ways of enacting these virtues. McCombs argues that Kierkegaard's ideas about the art of love reveal limits or exceptions to his individualism and to his anti-consequentialism in ethics. Art and Praise in Kierkegaard's Works of Love explores Kierkegaard's distinct praises of love through texts like Works of Love, The Brothers Karamazov, and Middlemarch to illustrate, complement, and sometimes correct Kierkegaard's profound account of love's art and wisdom, suggesting ways that the art of praise bears on other questions in aesthetics, ethics, and religion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666936063
• Artikelnr.: 68980572

Autorenporträt

Richard McCombs teaches at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: The Poetry of Faith in Fear and Trembling
Chapter Two: Love's Art of Upbuilding
Chapter Three: The Arts of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Peace-Making
Chapter Four: The Art of Praising Love
Chapter Five: Two Examples of Praising Love
Chapter Six: Love's Equality
Conclusion
Appendix: The Wisdom of Love
Bibliography
About the Author