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Title: Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction by Patrick Gardiner ISBN: 0-19-280256-9 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Substandard Treatment of Kierkegaard
Comment: It is rather disappointing that professor Gardiner, who otherwise seems himself to be an astute and conscientious writer, so patently overlooks the essential character of Kierkegaard and Kierkegaard's struggle to exist in the "how" (not the "what") of the truth. Sadly, Gardiner seems to fall victim of becoming almost doctrinaire(!) about Kierkegaard -- quite an irony, esp. considering that SK anticipated such reconstructions by pedantic professors after he was long dead.
I do NOT recommend this book, for many reasons, but esp. since it vainly attempts to consider SK as a mere thinker, using the spurious canons of rational acceptability all too common among Anglophone philosophes who merely play with the truth -- and never dare to actually venture out and live it in their lives.
On the other hand, if you want to read Gardiner -- for Gardiner's sake -- and you wish to refine the game of reconstruction and dour pedantism, buy the book, by all means...
Rating: 5
Summary: Kierkegaard: past and future master
Comment: I was introduced to the Great Dane by the sermons of a rigorous Presbyterian pastor, then lent a copy of Gardiner's book by a fellow Jewish student of Kaballah and comparative theology. When I later read Neil Johnson's 1982 the History of Lithium, it struck me, from Peter Gardiner's thoughtful analyses, how tragic it was that Soren died from his own obsessions just as he was reaching his peak, when lithium carbonate had been discovered in his own country and lifetime and- at the time of his death by apoplexy from raging against his Bishop - could have saved him from his manic depression. Not for nothing is he the father of both reformed modern western religion and psychology. The humanists, the secularists and the fanatics who followed him overlooked his eternal truths, the very manner of his tormented death, that, no matter your faith, ethics and personal conduct and responsibility matter above all(as eg Maimonides wrote before him in his commentary on the Mishnah Torah), and acceptance of a spiritual deity is a personal matter and transcending act of faith, never scientifically provable. He, we let the riddle of Abraham's dilemma(sacrificing his son) get at us at our peril.
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Title: Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Tanner ISBN: 0192854143 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Heidegger a Very Short Introduction: A Very Short Introduction by M. J. Inwood, Michael Inwood ISBN: 0192854100 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Sorell ISBN: 0192854097 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Marx: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer ISBN: 0192854054 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Locke: A Very Short Introduction by John Dunn ISBN: 0192803948 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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