Kierkegaard on the Philosophy of History [electronic resource] /
Patios, G.author.
History doesn't have to mean only an effort to know the past. It can be instead, according to Kierkegaard, a willful and personal choice regarding the creation of the future. Kierkegaard offers us an amazing new approach to the problem of what is history and who makes it.
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Cover ; Half-Title; Title; Copyrights; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Hegel's Philosophy of History; Introduction; The Hegelian enigma; The varieties of historical writing; Reason in history; Conclusion; 2 Kierkegaard's Concept of History; Introduction; The 'Interlude'; The context to the 'Interlude'; Doubt, belief, will, and freedom in history; Epilogue; 3 The Structure of the Kierkegaardian 'Self'; Introduction; Freedom and necessity, temporality and eternity; The human self; Eternity, God and despair; Anxiety; Possibility as anxiety
Anxiety as the result of a synthesisEternity and moment; Despair; Existential freedom; Despair and faith; Human/Political self; Conclusion; 4 Hegel's Philosophy of History and Kierkegaard's Concept of History: A Synthesis Instead of a Confrontation; Introduction; Hegelian claims on history; Reason; Knowledge of the past; Order and meaning in history; God's providence; Incarnation and history; Hegelian freedom and necessity; Individuals in history; Conclusion; Kierkegaardian claims; Kierkegaardian concept of history; Kierkegaard and the Incarnation; Freedom as opposite to logical necessity
Human consciousness and historyNecessity in (past) history; Doubt; Belief; The historical; Historical knowledge; My arguments; Conclusion; Hegel and Kierkegaard: a possible synthesis; Kierkegaard's relations to Hegel re-reconsidered; Niels Thulstrup; Jon Stewart; Jean-Paul Sartre; Mark C. Taylor; James Bogen; Peter J. Mehl; Merold Westphal; Unhappy consciousness; Epilogue; 5 Heidegger's Response to the Problem of History; Introduction; Part I; Part II; Part III; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
History doesn't have to mean only an effort to know the past. It can be instead, according to Kierkegaard, a willful and personal choice regarding the creation of the future. Kierkegaard offers us an amazing new approach to the problem of what is history and who makes it.
Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
Historiography.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Modern philosophy.
Movement (Philosophy).
Idealism, German.
Historiography and Method.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.
Modern Philosophy.
Philosophical Traditions.
German Idealism.