On Søren Kierkegaard

Tracing a path through Kierkegaard's writings this book brings the reader into close contact with the texts and purposes of this remarkable 19th century Danish writer and thinker. Kierkegaard writes in a number of voices and registers: as a sharp observer and critic of Danish culture or as a moral psychologist and as a writer concerned to evoke the religious way of life of Socrates Abraham or a Christian exemplar. In developing these themes Mooney sketches Kierkegaard's Socratic vocation gives a close reading of several central texts and traces 'The Ethical Sublime' as a recurrent theme. He unfolds an affirmative relationship between philosophy and theology and the potentialities for a religiousness that defies dogmatic creeds secular chauvinisms and restrictive philosophies.