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Ranging from astrology to neuroscience and cosmology, from homelessness to love and the fragility of human fellowship, the scope of Horace Hardcover's browser is unusually wide for a philosopher these days. His iconoclastic message is that uncertainty reveals more than the elimination of doubt. The light irony of Alastair Hannay's novella hands on this truth to the reader: Does it matter that we cannot decide whether its portrait of a philosop...

Rear-view mirrors are not normal scientific equipment, nor are philosophers all that keen to recall a partly embarrassing past. But looking back can cure a self-induced narrowing of the modern scientific mind and help us to renew a sense of where, if anywhere, we might feel we belong in the world. Today, a centuries-long belief in the primacy of a first-personal perspective has given way to an opposite view that what passes through the consci...

Readers often come to know Kierkegaard's work through just one or two of the more widely mentioned of his twenty-eight publications. Here the first-time reader is offered an introduction to Kierkegaard that situates the texts in a context of the personal circumstances from which they arose. This makes it clear why Kierkegaard was able to conclude not only that writing had been his own education, but that posterity would find as much interest i...

Oh friends, not these sounds, let us instead strike up ones more pleasing and more joyful'. Written during the corona of 2020 and stretching into 2021, the sounds and words of music are here given a deeper and wider meaning. The words quoted above were Beethoven's own in the lockdown of his own deafness and just before letting the chorus loose to proclaim that 'all people become brothers'. The sounds he refers to are those of despair, exuberan...

The lives of philosophers would be dull reading if they were as tidy as their thoughts often tend to be. Alastair Hannay describes how he 'slid' into philosophy but found it a useful means of transport for a life framed here in metaphors of the sea, an unruly element that has played some part in a not always tidy life.Although the philosophy option attracts some because it suits their talents, the less talented may look to it for guidance in m...

Ranging from astrology to neuroscience and cosmology, from homelessness to love and the fragility of human fellowship, the scope of Horace Hardcover's browser is unusually wide for a philosopher these days. His iconoclastic message is that uncertainty reveals more than the elimination of doubt. The light irony of Alastair Hannay's novella hands on this truth to the reader: Does it matter that we cannot decide whether its portrait of a philosop...

Ranging from astrology to neuroscience and cosmology, from homelessness to love and the fragility of human fellowship, the scope of Horace Hardcover's browser is unusually wide for a philosopher these days. His iconoclastic message is that uncertainty reveals more than the elimination of doubt. The light irony of Alastair Hannay's novella hands on this truth to the reader: Does it matter that we cannot decide whether its portrait of a philosop...

The last few years have seen a change in Kierkegaardian studies. Scholars have now moved away from their sole interest being in the philosopher himself, and have started to analyse the thematic importance of his work. For Alastair Hannay, Søren Kierkegaard is the prime example of a philosopher who dealt with existential themes with passion and yet, within his work, personal problems and those of social unity do not entirely coalesce. Kierkegaa...

In this absorbing new biography Alastair Hannay unravels the mystery of Soren Kierkegaard's short but momentous career.

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Kierkegaard and Philosophy makes many of the most important papers on Kierkegaard available in one place for the first time. These seventeen essays, written over a period of over twenty years, have all been substantially revised or specially prepared for this collection, with a new introduction by the author. In the first part, Alastair Hannay concentrates on Kierkegaard's central philosophical writings, offering closely text-based accounts of...

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

Accessible guide to Kierkegaard available serving as a reference to students and non-specialists.

A biography of Kierkegaard's life and thoughts written by one of the world's preeminent authorities.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A biography of Kierkegaard's life and thoughts written by one of the world's preeminent authorities.

Much attention is devoted to the influence of Kierkegaard on 20th-century philosophy. Topics covered in this interesting COMPANION volume include Kierkegaard's views on art and religion, ethics and psychology, theology and politics, and knowledge and virtue. Readers will find this one of the most convenient and accessible guides to Kierkegaard currently available.