Love's Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard's Works of LoveOxford University Press, 2001 M06 7 - 336 pages Soren Kierkegaard's Works of Love (1847), a series of deliberations on the commandment to love one's neighbor, has often been condemned by critics. Here, Ferreira seeks to rehabilitate Works of Love as one of Kierkegaard's most important works. He shows that Kierkegaard's deliberations on love are highly relevant to some important themes in contemporary ethics, including impartiality, duty, equality, mutuality, reciprocity, self-love, sympathy, and sacrifice. Ferreira also argues that Works of Love bears on issues peculiar to a religious ethic, such as the role of God as "middle term," and the possibility of preserving the aesthetic dimensions of love in a religious ethic of relation. |
Contents
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1 Loves Grateful Striving | 13 |
2 Loves LawObligation | 29 |
3 Loves LawEquality | 43 |
4 Loves LawKinship | 53 |
5 Loves LaborAction | 65 |
6 Loves LaborConscience | 84 |
7 Loves Vision | 99 |
12 Loves Faithfulness | 179 |
13 Loves Mercifulness | 188 |
14 Loves Delight in Reconciliation | 200 |
15 Loves Asymmetry | 209 |
16 Loves Transparency | 228 |
17 Loves Repetition | 240 |
Conclusion | 255 |
Table of Contents of Works of Love | 263 |
8 Loves Debt | 117 |
9 Loves Venture | 137 |
10 Loves Gift | 151 |
11 Loves Forgiveness | 169 |
Notes | 265 |
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