Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript'

Sren Kierkegaard''S Concluding Unscientific Postscript Has Provoked A Lively Variety Of Divergent Interpretations For A Century And A Half. It Has Been Both Celebrated And Condemned As The Chief Inspiration For Twentieth-Century Existential Thought As A Subversive Parody Of Philosophical Argument As A Critique Of Mass Society As A Forerunner Of Phenomenology And Of Postmodern Relativism And As An Appeal For A Renewal Of Religious Commitment. These 2010 Essays Written By International Kierkegaard Scholars Offer A Plurality Of Critical Approaches To This Fundamental Text Of Existential Philosophy. They Cover Hotly Debated Topics Such As The Tension Between The Socratic-Philosophical And The Christian-Religious; The Identity And Personality Of Kierkegaard''S Pseudonym ''Johannes Climacus''; His Conceptions Of Paradoxical Faith And Of Passionate Understanding; His Relation To His Contemporaries And To Some Of His More Distant Predecessors; And Last But Not Least His Pertinence To Our Present-Day Concerns.