Vorwort
New and original essays from both established and young scholars on Kierkegaard's monumental text on love.

Autorentext
Jeffrey Hanson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at New College of Florida and Senior Philosopher at Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program. He is the author of Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith (2017), editor of Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist: An Experiment (2010), and co-editor of Kierkegaard's 'The Sickness unto Death': A Critical Guide (Cambridge 2022). Wojciech Kaftanski is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and Research Affiliate at Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program. He is the author of Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity: A Study of Imitation, Existence, and Affect (2022).

Klappentext
Kierkegaard's Works of Love, published in 1847, is considered a monumental text on love from one of the nineteenth century's greatest thinkers. It considers different types of love including Christian love and love of God, as well as love of a parent, a spouse, and a friend. It was initially considered austere and unrewarding as a philosophical and religious text, but is now being appraised more appreciatively from a diverse range of perspectives. The essays in this Critical Guide engage with Kierkegaard's unique view of love and expand upon topics including duty, virtue, selfhood, friendship, authenticity, God, hermeneutics, environmentalism, politics, justice, self-righteousness, despair, equality, commitment, sociality, and meaning in life. Drawing on both analytic and continental European traditions, they revisit the vexed and contested questions of this book and demonstrate its continuing relevance and importance to present-day debates.

Zusammenfassung
Offering original research by both leading and new scholars, this book revisits the vexed and contested questions of Kierkegaard's Works of Love and demonstrates its continuing relevance and importance to present-day debates. It will be valuable to students of philosophy, theology, ecology, and political theory.

Inhalt

Introduction Jeffrey Hanson and Wojciech Kaftanski; 1. Kierkegaard's view of neighbor love: both a duty and a virtue C. Stephen Evans; 2. Love's object, love's aim Robert Stern and Daniel Watts; 3. Self-love and selfhood Dar Triffon Reshef; 4. Beyond eros and agape: the absent third form of love Rick Anthony Furtak; 5. Love (Does and) does not seek its own: love of self and neighbor in the development of Eiendommelighed Deidre Nicole Green; 6. A Trinitarian approach to Kierkegaard's works of love Todd DeRose and Matt Aroney; 7. The limits of suspicion and the possibilities of love Amber Bowen; 8. What happened to the meadow? An ecological perspective on works of love Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal; 9. 'To love a second time:' love as time-bound repetition of commitment to the good of the other Wojciech Kaftanski; 10. Generosity of spirit and moral criticism: how the 'one who loves' overcomes self-righteousness John Lippitt; 11. Love before the law: 'justice' Frances Maughan-Brown; 12. Love as the antidote to despair Jeffrey Hanson; 13. The individual in the social world: on human equality in Kierkegaard's works of love read in light of a literary review Iben Damgaard; 14. 'God as the middle term' or: love and the meaningful life Sharon Krishek; Bibliography; Index.