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Errant Affirmations : On the Philosophical Meaning of Kierkegaard's Religious Discourses - David J. Kangas

Errant Affirmations

On the Philosophical Meaning of Kierkegaard's Religious Discourses

By: David J. Kangas

Hardcover | 30 November 2017

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Kierkegaard's religious discourses - his writings which have explicitly dealt with religion - have historically been given scant attention by philosophers. They have generally been considered to be of less philosophical interest than his 'proper' philosophy. Errant Affirmations radically questions this claim and considers Kierkegaard's religious writings as absolutely central to his philosophical vision.

Through close and clear readings of Kierkegaard's work, David Kangas argues that contemporary philosophical themes - gift, temporality, language, death, nothingness, economy and selfhood- are not only evident in the 'religious' works but explored with real depth and fascination. Above all, the book argues that Kierkegaard's positive account of the human condition, his "ontology,â ? fully emerges only in these discourses. It shows how these discourses are organized around an "errantâ ? kind of affirmation-namely, an affirmation of existence that is without conditions. Such affirmation involves the intensification of life around "todayâ ? and coincides with a joy that has no particular cause. It is an affirmation capable of affirming life even amidst its finitude and suffering.

Errant Affirmations is a fresh interpretation of Kierkegaard's understudied works that not only opens up a new reading of Kierkegaard but elucidates his 'religious' texts and places them organically within his philosophy as a whole.
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Errant Affirmations is a wonderful book that works at several different levels. The argument is developed through a highly original series of meditations on Kierkegaard's edifying discourses that shows how these often neglected works anticipate the key issues that have engaged continental philosophy of religion over the last thirty years. Now - at last - we are led to see just why Heidegger was right when he said that there was more of philosophical interest in Kierkegaard's edifying writings than in his more obviously philosophical works. This work not only puts the discourses into the centre of contemporary philosophy of religion but also shows that any reading of Kierkegaard that neglects them is missing the main event. Like the discourses themselves Errant Affirmations is sensitive to the poetry of language and to the religious as well as to the philosophical needs of its readers. David Kangas' death has been a grievous loss to the community of Kierkegaard scholarship but Errant Affirmations at least leaves us with thoughts and insights to ponder and debate for a long time to come.

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