This book examines the thinking of two nineteenth-century existentialist thinkers, Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. Its focus is on the radically different ways they envisioned a joyful acceptance of life - a concern they shared. For Kierkegaard, in Fear and Trembling, joyful acceptance fl
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: Faith and Eternal Acceptance
β Scribed by J. Kellenberger (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 156
- Series
- Library of Philosophy and Religion
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Abraham, the Knight of Faith....Pages 9-19
The Joyfulness of Faith....Pages 20-28
The Ethical, Infinite Resignation, and the Demonic....Pages 29-44
Knights of Faith....Pages 45-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Nietzsche as the Antichrist....Pages 59-69
Zarathustra, the Prophet of the Γbermensch, and the Death-of-God Theme....Pages 70-79
Transvaluation....Pages 80-88
Eternal Recurrence and Joyful Acceptance....Pages 89-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
The Joy of Faith and the Joy of Zarathustraβs Acceptance....Pages 107-115
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche....Pages 116-129
Back Matter....Pages 130-150
β¦ Subjects
Philosophy of Religion; History of Philosophy; Philosophical Traditions; Phenomenology
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