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Title: Preface to 'Kierkegaards Concepts - Tome I: Absolute to Church'
Contributor(s): Emmanuel, Steven M (author); McDonald, William  (author); Stewart, Jon (author)
Publication Date: 2013
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/14890
Abstract: Soren Kierkegaard knew that the religious relationship calls the human being into a twofold process involving language. On the one hand, human beings are called to name and describe in language the reality being experienced; yet, on the other hand, they are called to negate the naming and the discursive, linguistic descriptions because such naming and descriptions always fall short of giving proper expression to the reality being named. Kierkegaard's potency as a religious and philosophical thinker resided in his singular capacity for carrying out both sides of this calling. He could engage in naming with the best of them, but he was also unrelenting in his engagement in the activity of negating. A rationality of the deepest sort is at play more obviously in naming but also less obviously in negating, and Kierkegaard's dialectical gifts served him well in the two arenas. One element of language that plays an important role in both naming and negating is the concept. Some concepts come to be very important for a thinker because they are terms that express in a word a whole set of claims being affirmed. To gain an understanding of these central concepts can facilitate the inquirer's grasping the viewpoint of the thinker employing them. This surely is the case with Kierkegaard: learning the meaning of his central concepts is the key into his world of thought.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Kierkegaards Concepts - Tome I: Absolute to Church, p. xi-xiii
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Place of Publication: Farnham, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781472417497
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 220209 History of Ideas
220207 History and Philosophy of the Humanities
220208 History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 500207 History of ideas
500205 History and philosophy of the humanities
500206 History and philosophy of the social sciences
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950499 Religion and Ethics not elsewhere classified
950504 Understanding Europes Past
950404 Religion and Society
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 130704 Understanding Europe’s past
130501 Religion and society
HERDC Category Description: B2 Chapter in a Book - Other
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/206726372
Series Name: Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources
Series Number : 15
Editor: Editor(s): Steven M Emmanuel, William McDonald and Jon Stewart
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