Release on 2014-10-20 | by Richard Griffith Rollefson
reading of Wittgenstein—to further an understanding of Kierkegaard's literature
and to go on to describe the “morphology of the life of Christian belief.” Again, in
keeping with the intent which Kierkegaard states directly in his journals and Point
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Author: Richard Griffith Rollefson
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ISBN: 9781630875299
Category: Religion
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Paul L. Holmer influenced the development of the so-called Yale School and several generations of students by seeing common logical and ethico-religious themes in the works of Soren Kierkegaard and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Holmer is perhaps the preeminent interpreter of Kierkegaard with his analysis of the logic of Kierkegaard's "truth as subjectivity" and "the morphology of the life of Christian belief." In his polemical and constructive work The Grammar of Faith, Holmer explored the significance of the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein for theology and proposed a critical alternative to contemporary academic theology. In his C. S. Lewis: The Shape of His Life and Thought, Making Christian Sense, and various essays now compiled in The Paul L. Holmer papers, Holmer's reassessment of the traditional concepts of virtues and vices, his recognition of the importance of Christian praxis in providing the context for theological and ethical reflection, together with his emphasis on the role of emotions and passions in the life of faith, portray how the Christian faith forms character and helps one "make sense" with one's life.
For details of individual works in this series, and of other translations used, see
Reference Key to Kierkegaard's Texts on pages ... (1988) The Grammar of the
Heart: Thinking with Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein (San Francisco: Harper & Row
).
Author: John Lippitt
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9780230598652
Category: Philosophy
Page: 210
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Irony, humour and the comic play vital yet under-appreciated roles in Kierkegaard's thought. Focusing upon the Concluding Unscientific Postscript, this book investigates these roles, relating irony and humour as forms of the comic to central Kierkegaardian themes. How does the comic function as a form of 'indirect communication'? What roles can irony and humour play in the infamous Kierkegaardian 'leap'? Do certain forms of wisdom depend upon possessing a sense of humour? And is such a sense of humour thus a genuine virtue?
C. S. Lewis: The Shape of His Faith and Thought. ... Based on the March 1987
symposium, “The Grammar of the Heart: Thinking with Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein,” to honor Paul L. Holmer, held at The College of Wooster, Wooster,
Ohio.
Author: Paul L. Holmer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781621893646
Category: Religion
Page: 374
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In his teaching and his writing, Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota (1946-1960) and Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School (1960-1987), made many important contributions to recent American theology. One of the most insightful American students of Kierkegaard of his generation, Holmer perceived early on Wittgenstein's importance for theology, and employed both thinkers to inspire his own fresh consideration of perennial issues in philosophical theology: understanding, belief, faith, the emotions, and the importance of the virtues. While best known for his essays in The Grammar of Faith (1978), Holmer penned numerous other interesting and original essays, some published but many unpublished, which circulated widely in typescript during his tenure at Yale. Following his death, the Holmer family in 2005 donated his papers to the Yale Divinity School Library; in reviewing Holmer's papers, the editors have chosen a selection of his most seminal essays, beyond those in The Grammar of Faith, demonstrating the breadth and range of his contributions. In this, the second volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, the editors present pieces that illuminate four significant areas of Holmer's contributions: essays on Kierkegaard; essays on Wittgenstein; Theology, Understanding, and Faith; and Emotions, Passions, and Virtues. Taken together, these essays invite in-depth exploration of the thought of this important American philosophical theologian. This is the second volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, which includes also volume 1, On Kierkegaard and Truth: Selected Essays, and volume 3, Communicating the Faith Indirectly: Selected Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers.
Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion Genia
Schönbaumsfeld ... It seems to me that much of Wittgenstein's great admiration
for Kierkegaard derives from his thinking that Kierkegaard, more than perhaps
any other ...
Author: Genia Schönbaumsfeld
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191614835
Category: Philosophy
Page: 224
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Cursory allusions to the relation between Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein are common in the philosophical literature, but there has been little in the way of serious and comprehensive commentary on the relationship of their ideas. Genia Schönbaumsfeld closes this gap and offers new readings of Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's conceptions of philosophy and religious belief. Chapter one documents Kierkegaard's influence on Wittgenstein, while chapters two and three provide trenchant criticisms of two prominent attempts to compare the two thinkers, D. Z. Phillips and James Conant. In chapter four, Schönbaumsfeld develops Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's concerted criticisms of the 'spaceship view' of religion and defends it against the common charges of 'fideism' and 'irrationalism'. As well as contributing to contemporary debate about how to read Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's work, A Confusion of the Spheres addresses issues which not only concern scholars of Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard, but anyone interested in the philosophy of religion, or the ethical aspects of philosophical practice as such.
C. S. Lewis: The Shape of His Faith and Thought. ... Based on the March 1987
symposium, “The Grammar of the Heart: Thinking with Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein,” to ... Essays on Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein: On Understanding
the Self.
Author: Paul L. Holmer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781621894346
Category: Religion
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Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota (1946-1960) and Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School (1960-1987). Among his many acomplishments, Holmer was one of the most significant American students of Kierkegaard of his generation. Although written in the 1950s and 1960s, Holmer's theological and philosophical engagement with Kierkegaard challenges much in the contemporary scholarly discussions of this important thinker. Unlike many, Holmer refuses reductionist readings that tie Kierkegaard to any particular "school." He likewise criticizes biographical readings of Kierkegaard, much in vogue recently, seeing Kierkegaard rather as an indirect communicator aiming at his reader's own ethical and religious capacities. Holmer also rejects popular existentialist readings of Kierkegaard, seeing him as an analyzer of concepts, while at the same time denying that he is a "crypto-analyst." Holmer criticizes the attempt to construe Kierkegaard as a didactic religious thinker, appreciating Kierkegaard's "cool" descriptive objectivity and his ironic and stylistic virtuosity. In his important reading of Kierkegaard on "truth," Holmer pits Kierkegaard against those who see "truth" empirically, idealistically, or relativistically. Holmer's carefully textured account of Kierkegaard's conceptual grammar of "truth" in ethical and religious contexts, fifty years after it was penned, addresses immediately current discussions of truth, meaning, reference, and realism versus antirealism, relativism, and hermeneutics. It will be of great interest to all interested in Kierkegaard and his importance for contemporary theology and philosophy. This is the first volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, which includes also volume 2, Thinking the Faith with Passion: Selected Essays, and volume 3, Communicating the Faith Indirectly: Selected Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers.
14 Kierkegaard for This World ȣPaul Martens Against the grain of the vast
majority of scholarship at the time, David ... volume The Grammar of the Heart
had already been published with the subtitle Thinking with Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein.
Author: Warner M. Bailey
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781630874940
Category: Religion
Page: 298
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The Theologically Formed Heart invites the reader to consider the role of theology in the formation of virtues and passions, and, conversely, the role of virtues and passions in understanding Scripture, theology, and living a Christian life. The essays in this volume are offered in appreciation of the teaching, scholarship, and service to the church and world of Professor of Theology David J. Gouwens. They are organized in three sections: theological reflections, Reformed theology in service to the church, and studies in the thought of Soren Kierkegaard. Four important issues are explored from multiple perspectives: the Church's coming to terms with religious pluralism in mission, inter-religious dialogue, theological education, and ecclesial life; the gospel's invitation to welcome communities of difference; Reformed aesthetics in Calvin's rhetoric and in contemporary hymnody; and Kierkegaard's contribution to theology and ecclesial practice. The aims of the book go beyond academic confines. Through reading the different essays, a personality will emerge who illustrates a life of scholarship that yields itself gladly to the God made known in Jesus Christ. Thus, beyond imparting new information, the book may inspire its readers to their own practice of theologically forming their hearts.
Bouwsma was not so much a Kierkegaard scholar , as one who thought through Kierkegaard , appropriating him in his thinking on ... Kierkegaard's Monstrous
Illusion ” Bouwsma offers a remark comparing Kierkegaard's task to Wittgenstein's .
Author: Jon Bartley Stewart
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409440559
Category: Religion
Page: 239
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Tome III traces Kierkegaard's influence on Anglophone philosophy. It has long been thought that Kierkegaard played no role in this tradition, which for years was dominated by analytic philosophy. In this environment it was common to dismiss Kierkegaard along with the then current European philosophers who were influenced by him. However, a closer look reveals that in fact there were several thinkers in the US, Canada and Great Britain who were inspired by Kierkegaard even during the heyday of analytic philosophy. Current thinking now suggests that Kierkegaard has made some serious inroads into mainstream Anglophone philosophy, with many authors seeking inspiration in his works for current discussions concerning ethics, personal identity, philosophy of religion, and philosophical anthropology.
Without philosophy thoughts are , as it were , cloudy and indistinct : its task is to
make them clear and give them sharp boundaries .. It must set limits to ...
individual's thought . For both Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein , philosophy is
inevitable .
Author: Charles L. Creegan
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015017693287
Category: Philosophy
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Features the full text of "Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard: Religion, Individuality and Philosophical Method," by Charles L. Creegan. Discusses the works and theories of Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) and British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951).
C. S. Lewis: The Shape of His Faith and Thought. New York: Harper & Row, 1976
... of the Heart: Thinking with Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein,” to honor Paul L.
Holmer, held at The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH. Bell, Richard H., and
Ronald ...
Author: Paul L. Holmer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781621894810
Category: Religion
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Volume 3 The Paul L. Holmer Papers: Selected Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers In his teaching and his writing, Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota (1946-1960) and Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School (1960-1987), not only made important contributions to recent American theology, but was also much in demand as a public speaker and preacher. Following his death, the Holmer family in 2005 donated his papers to the Yale Divinity School Library. In this, the third volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers: Communicating the Faith Indirectly, the reader will see Holmer's deep concern with the problems and possibilities of the sermon, liturgy, ministry, and spirituality. Inspired by Soren Kierkegaard's reflections on "indirect communication," and by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Holmer not only reveals his strenuous reflection on the sermon, but also gives concrete examples of his own efforts to communicate, enabling his hearers and readers to "make sense" of their lives. In the first part of this volume, Holmer reflects upon Kierkegaard's "indirect communication," a communication not of knowledge but of human capacity. In other pieces Holmer turns to liturgy, ministry, and spirituality. In the second part of this volume, the reader sees Holmer's own challenging, uncompromising practice of religious and Christian communication, in a selection of his sermons, addresses, and prayers. For anyone concerned with sermons, liturgy, spirituality, and the challenges of ministry, Holmer's essays and addresses will prove indispensable. This is the third volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, which includes also volume 1, On Kierkegaard and the Truth, and volume 2, Thinking the Faith with Passion: Selected Essays.
What one may think much more problematic is when Kierkegaard's Lutheran
context is so little understood that he is fully ... a power greater than our own' (
Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Oxford, 2001,
386).
Author: Daphne Hampson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191654015
Category: Religion
Page: 368
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Kierkegaard is a fascinating author. Living shortly after the dawn of modernity in the Enlightenment, he restates classical Christianity in novel and dynamic fashion. His Lutheran heritage is pivotal here as he places 'faith' over against 'reason'. But we should recognise that decidedly pre-modern epistemological presuppositions lie behind Kierkegaard's theological contentions, giving us pause for thought. A profound thinker with eclectic interests, philosophical, theological, ethical, social and pastoral, Kierkegaard never ceases to engage the reader. His insights into human life - the matter of coherence of the self, the crucial category of the individual, or the significance of choice - are memorable. A fine writer with observant eye, Kierkegaard enthrals the reader with his flair, perspicacity and ready wit. After an initial chapter on Kierkegaard's intellectual milieu, the book considers seven of his major texts. An 'Exposition', with extensive quotation, sets the text in philosophical, theological and historical context. Following which a 'Critique' raises issues, ranging from Kierkegaard's indifference to biblical scholarship, to his lack of recognition of the regularity of causation, and his a-political outlook. A final chapter considers Kierkegaard as a person and evaluates the authorship. Lucidly written, Hampson's book provides a general introduction to Kierkegaard, while greatly aiding novice readers of his texts. It should also command the attention of scholars, for its forthright debate with Kierkegaard and for illuminating, as has no previous work, his Lutheran thought forms. Provocative and original, it will leave its mark on Kierkegaard scholarship, while raising seminal questions for the wider theological enterprise.
one's talk and thought and life, and not to have that in oneself, or not to recognize
it, that would make those distinctions. ... ourselves) that one shouldfirst attempt to
understand what Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard each might have meant bythe ...
Author: Y. Iczkovits
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781137026361
Category: Philosophy
Page: 211
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Exploring the ethical dimension of Wittgenstein's thought, Iczkovits challenges the view that Wittgenstein had a vision of language and subsequently a vision of ethics, showing how the two are integrated in his philosophical method, and allowing us to reframe traditional problems in moral philosophy considered as external to questions of meaning.
Through detailed re-readings of these authors' most influential texts, as attentive to their specificity as to their family resemblances, Stephen Mulhall reorients our sense of the philosophical work each text aims to accomplish, to ...
Author: Stephen Mulhall
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191583367
Category: History
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What might it mean to think of philosophy as being in the condition of modernism -- in which its relation to its own past, and hence its sense of its own future, has become an undismissable problem? If philosophy's hitherto-defining conventions can neither be taken for granted nor rejected, they must be put in question -- which menans re-evealuating the relation between the form and content of philosophical writing, rethinking the demands that such writing must place on its readers, and reconceiving the nature of philosophy itself. Inheritance and Originality argues that the writings of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard are best understood as responsive (each in their own way) to such questions, and as driven in consequence to strikingly similar reconceptions of language, reason, and understanding, doubt and scepticism, morality, and the structure of selfhood. Through detailed re-readings of these authors' most influential texts, as attentive to their specificity as to their family resemblances, Stephen Mulhall reorients our sense of the philosophical work each text aims to accomplish, to engender a critical dialogue betweeen them from which the elements of a new conception of philosophy might emerge, and to uncover that conception's indebtedness to certain fundamental theological preoccupations.
Kant, Dilthey, Wittgenstein, and Weber Henry Krips Department of Cultural
Studies, Claremont Graduate University In ... Hertz, the Kantian revisionist Arthur
Schopenhauer, and the Christian existentialist Søren Kierkegaard (Janik and
Toulmin ...
Author: Peter K. Machamer
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 9780822971115
Category: Science
Page: 328
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Emerging as a hot topic in the mid-twentieth century, causality is one of the most frequently discussed issues in contemporary philosophy. Thinking about Causes brings together top philosophers from the United States and Europe to focus on causality as a major force in philosophical and scientific thought.
The Grammar of the Heart : Thinking with Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein : New
Essays in Moral Philosophy and Theology , San Francisco : Harper and Row
1988 . Bigelow , Pat , Kierkegaard and the Problem of Writing , Tallahassee :
Florida ...
Author: Jon Stewart
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: STANFORD:36105210636150
Category: Philosophy
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As Kierkegaard's reputation grew, he was co-opted by a number of different philosophical and religious movements in different contexts throughout the world. This volume features the three tomes that attempt to record the history of this reception according to national and linguistic categories.
For more on this inept thinking, see Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and
Documents 1911–1951, ed. Brian McGinness (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012),
367: “Thinking is sometimes easy, often difficult but at the same time thrilling. But
when ...
Author: Ronald F. Marshall
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781621898641
Category: Religion
Page: 394
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Most of what is written on Kierkegaard today is for the college classroom and academic conferences. The guiding question of this book is that if Kierkegaard's words about Christianity are true, how do they change the way we learn and practice the Christian faith today? This book is an answer to that question. It does not enter into an extended critical discussion over the truth of Kierkegaard's ideas. Instead it just believes what Kierkegaard said and runs with it. It does that by showing how his ideas change our understanding of Christian identity, suffering and illness, worship and preaching, the Bible, baptism, prayer, marriage and divorce, criticism, and the Christian minister. Interspersed are many quotations from Martin Luther, whose thought significantly shaped Kierkegaard's. At the end of the book is a hefty collection of sermons to show how all of this can be preached in the church. What Kierkegaard for the Church adds to our understanding of Kierkegaard is the place of the church in his thought. Because of his criticisms of the Danish state church and his stress on the need for the single individual to appropriate Christian teachings, it could be imagined that he rejected the church. But that would be to throw the baby out with the bath. The fact is that Kierkegaard remained a loyal son of the church even while he attacked it. And he did this only so he could strengthen what he loved.
Beabout , Gregory R. Freedom and Its Misuses : Kierkegaard on Anxiety and
Despair . Milwaukee : Marquette University Press , 1996 . Bell Richard H. , ed .
The Grammar of the Heart : Thinking with Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein . New
Essays ...
Kierkegaard too saw that there is this running up against something and he
referred to it in a fairly similar way (as running ... Now, the mere existence of an
affinity between Wittgenstein's thinking about ethics at this time (a period during
which I ...
Author: Kevin M. Cahill
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231528115
Category: Philosophy
Page: 288
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Kevin M. Cahill reclaims one of Ludwig Wittgenstein's most passionately pursued endeavors: to reawaken a sense of wonder around human life and language and its mysterious place in the world. Following the philosopher's spiritual and cultural criticism and tying it more tightly to the overall evolution of his thought, Cahill frames an original interpretation of Wittgenstein's engagement with Western metaphysics and modernity, better contextualizing the force of his work. Cahill synthesizes several approaches to Wittgenstein's life and thought. He stresses the nontheoretical aspirations of the philosopher's early and later writings, combining key elements from the so-called resolute readings of the Tractatus with the "therapeutic" readings of Philosophical Investigations. Cahill shows how continuity in Wittgenstein's cultural and spiritual concerns informed if not guided his work between these texts, and in his reading of the Tractatus, Cahill identifies surprising affinities with Martin Heidegger's Being and Time—a text rarely associated with Wittgenstein's early formulations. In his effort to recapture wonder, Wittgenstein both avoided and undermined traditional philosophy's reliance on theory. As Cahill relates the steps of this bold endeavor, he forms his own innovative, analytical methods, joining historicist and contextualist approaches to text-based, immanent readings. The result is an original, sustained examination of Wittgenstein's thought.
Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Ethics and Aesthetics Onno Zijlstra. does not ... Wittgenstein is on another track than he was at the time he wrote the Tractatus . I think he is further away from the Tractatus than he himself sees . In ' I wonder at ...
Author: Onno Zijlstra
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 3039108425
Category: Philosophy
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This study examines the relation of image and language as well as the relation of ethics and aesthetics through a discussion of the positions of Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. In the Tractatus Wittgenstein pursues the idea that the image can show what language cannot express and defends an aesthetic unity of ethics and aesthetics. Is he right? Is there not much to be said in favour of the opposite position, represented by Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author Judge William (in Either/Or)? William criticizes the image and argues in favour of language and of an ethical unity of aesthetics and ethics. William shows that the word has a decisive surplus when compared to the image. However, this position has its shortcomings too: language is not the only place of authentic communication. Looking for an alternative to 'logoclasm' (the early Wittgenstein) and 'iconoclasm' (William), Zijlstra explores Wittgenstein's later work and Kierkegaard's oeuvre as a whole and presents a new way of thinking about the relation of ethics and aesthetics.
... recalled that Wittgenstein had once told him that he thought Kierkegaard the
most original thinker of the nineteenth century ; not ... Investigations Wittgenstein
wrote , “ I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking .
gaard and Wittgenstein enable us to see our " own thinking with all its deformities
” and how each offers suggestions as to ... The goal of each essay here is not
exposition or interpretation of either Kierkegaard ' s or Wittgenstein ' s thought
itself ...
