Kierkegaard's Upbuilding Discourses

<p>George Pattison provides a bold and innovative reassessment of Kierkegaard's neglected <em>Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses</em> and reading of his work as a whole. The first full length assessment of the discourses in English, this volume will be essential reading for philosophers and theologians, and anyone interested in Kierkegaard and the history of philosophy.</p> Introduction; Chapter 1 Kierkegaard's right hand; Chapter 2 The human condition; Chapter 3 Dialectics, phenomenology and the sublime; Chapter 4 Before God; Chapter 5 The language of upbuilding; Chapter 6 The rhetorics of the upbuilding discourses; Chapter 7 Building up love's ruins; Chapter 8 Love's witness;