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 |
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Love's Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard's Works of Love M. Jamie Ferreira Limited preview - 2001 |
Love's Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard's Works of Love M. Jamie Ferreira Limited preview - 2001 |
Love's Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard's Works of Love M. Jamie Ferreira No preview available - 2010 |
Common terms and phrases
acosmic actually affirmation Agape appreciation argue asymmetry beloved blindness chapter Christ Christian love claim concern concrete context contrast criticism demand discourse discussion distinction divine command ethic earlier Emmanuel Levinas emphasis equality erotic love example expression external faith Fear and Trembling forgiveness fourth deliberation fulfill gaard genuine gift give God's love hidden hiding human Ibid implies important indifference infinite debt insists inwardness Kierke Kierkegaard says Kierkegaard's ethic Kierkegaard's Writings kind Levinas Levinas's Løgstrup love and friendship love commandment love the neighbor love's Luther Lutheran maieutic Martin Buber means Mercer University merciful middle term moral Moreover neighbor love notion obligation one's oneself other's ourselves person possibility praise love precisely preferential love question reciprocity reference relation relationship reminds requirement response Robert Bernasconi sacrifice Samaritan self-denial self-love sense Simon Critchley someone Søren Kierkegaard speak Teleology theme thing tion trans understanding University Press unloving upbuilding words
References to this book
Living Christianly: Kierkegaard's Dialectic of Christian Existence Sylvia Walsh Limited preview - 2010 |