Vaškovic / Vaskovic Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky

The Search of the Authentic Life and the Problem of Existential Entrapment
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-159146-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 51, 283 Seiten

Reihe: Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph SeriesISSN

The book brings together the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard with that of another prominent proto-existentialist thinker, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Asking the question: "What constitutes an authentic Christian life?", the book explores the answer given by both authors, which is that one should rid oneself of selfish inclinations and strive for a life of faith that revolves around the virtues of humility and non-preferential love. However, as we learn from Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard, becoming an authentic individual is no easy task, and the book goes on to examine the obstacles that lie in the path of individual existential self-development.

The book then examines the ways in which the various characters and pseudonymous authors who populate Dostoevsky's and Kierkegaard's books struggle in their attempts to become authentic ethical and religious individuals. The examination of this struggle, termed and defined as the inability to progress on the path of one's existential self-development, forms the core of the book and helps to map out the ethical-religious landscape of Dostoevsky’s and Kierkegaard’s thought.

Zielgruppe

Scholars in existential philosophy, theology, Kierkegaard studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vaškovic, Petr

Vaskovic, Petr

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Ethik, Moraltheologie, Sozialethik

Über Autor(innen)

Petr Vaškovic, Palacký Universität, Olomouc, Tschechien.

Petr Vaškovic, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.