John Lippitt

Kierkegaard and the Problem of Self-Love

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book develops a Kierkegaard-inspired account of proper self-love which accommodates trust, hope, and forgiveness of self and others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781107035614
• ISBN-10: 1107035619
• Artikelnr.: 37294793

Autorenporträt

John Lippitt is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Hertfordshire. His publications include Humour and Irony in Kierkegaard's Thought (2000) and The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kierkegaard and Fear and Trembling (2003, 2nd edition forthcoming). Lippitt is editor of Nietzsche's Futures (1999), and co-editor of Nietzsche and the Divine (with Jim Urpeth, 2000) and The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard (with George Pattison, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: how should I love myself?
2. Cracking the mirror: friendship and the problem of self-love
3. Self-love in Works of Love: explicit references
4. The problem of special relationships: self-love's wider context
5. Another take on self-love: an excursus on Harry Frankfurt
6. Love's blank cheques: on self-denial and its limitations
7. Towards a more positive account of self-love, I: trust and hope
8. Towards a more positive account of self-love, II: self-forgiveness and self-respect
9. An immodest proposal: a coda on rehabilitating pride
10. Summary and conclusion.