Kierkegaard and Mysticism (eBook, ePUB)

Reception, Influence, Resonance
Redaktion: Becker-Lindenthal, Hjördis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Kierkegaard and Mysticism brings together scholars who show that reading Søren Kierkegaard from the perspective of mysticism not only sheds new light on the Dane's thought but also offers a fresh approach to mysticism as such, considering its relevance for existential questions, ethics, inter-faith dialogues, and socio-political criticism.

The three sections focus on:

• reception history, considering the mystical writers who, even when mediated through secondary sources, were most formative for Kierkegaard's thought;
• mystical concepts such as silence, unio mystica and the relation of the contemplative and active life in various religious traditions;
• Kierkegaard's relevance for twentieth-century mystical writers and contemporary spirituality.

Whereas previous scholarship has approached Kierkegaard's relation to mysticism mainly under a negative paradigm, this volume contributes to a greater understanding of the mystical dimensions of his thought. It will be of interest not only to Kierkegaard scholars but also to theologians and philosophers working on mysticism and intellectual history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040428498
• Artikelnr.: 75259026

Autorenporträt

Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal is an affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: The Master of Irony and the Mystical Canon Kierkegaard and
Mysticism? Introduction Part 1: Kierkegaard and the Mystical Tradition 1.
Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Kenotic Existence 2. Agency and Contemplation:
Neptic Themes in Kierkegaard 3. Unio Mystica and the Infinite Difference
Between God and Human Being: Kierkegaard and Tauler 4. Justification and
Sanctification: Luther, Arndt, and Kierkegaard's Inheritance of Theologia
Deutsch 5. Purity of Heart and the Pure Love of God: Kierkegaard and
Fénelon 6. Modern Devotion: Thomas à Kempis, Søren Kierkegaard, and the
Question of the Unio Mystica 7. "Upbuilding Religious Popular-Philosophy":
Martensen's Eckhart and Kierkegaard's Defense of Mysticism Part 2:
Approaching Mysticism With Kierkegaard 8. The Mystical Horizon: The
Temptation of Mysticism and the Transfiguration of Unio Mystica 9.
Re-thinking Spirituality with Kierkegaard: the First Schleswig War and the
Turn to Imitatio Christi 10. Contemplative Withdrawal and Ethical Life: A
Kierkegaardian Critique 11. Muslim Sufism and Kierkegaard's Mysticism:
Returning to the Finite World 12. Kierkegaard and the Three Characteristics
of Existence in Buddhism Part 3: Mysticism After Kierkegaard 13.
Contemporaneity with Christ: Cornelio Fabro's Kierkegaardian Approach to
the Mystical Writings of St. Gemma Galgani 14. Antigone Again? Reading
Kierkegaard and Simone Weil 15. Against the Hierarchization of Religion and
Ethics: The Opposition of Hasidism and Kierkegaard in Martin Buber 16. The
Stranger Within: Kierkegaard, Mysticism, and the Unconscious.