Mark Bernier

The Task of Hope in Kierkegaard (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Philosophers of religion are often caught up with the epistemic justification of their religious beliefs, rather than the qualities of the religious life that make it valuable. Mark Bernier argues that hope is one of the most important of such qualities, and is an essential thread that connects despair, faith, and the self. The Task of Hope in Kierkegaard reconstructs Kierkegaard's theory of hope, which involves the distinction between mundane and authentic hope, and makes three principal claims. Firstly, while despair involves the absence of hope, a rejection of oneself, and a turn away from one's relation to God, despair is fundamentally an unwillingness to hope. This unwillingness is directed toward authentic hope, conceived of by Kierkegaard as an expectation for the possibility of the good. Secondly, hope is not simply an ancillary activity of the self; rather, the task of becoming a self is essentially constituted by hope. Thus, when in despair one is unwilling to hope, one is in fact rejecting one's task of becoming a self. Thirdly, faith stands in opposition to despair precisely because it is a willingness to hope. An essential role of faith is to secure the ground for hope, and in this way faith secures the ground for the self. In short, authentic hope (what Kierkegaard calls spiritual hope) is not merely a fringe element, but is essential to Kierkegaard's project of the self.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191065057
• Artikelnr.: 43846481

Autorenporträt

Mark Bernier (Ph.D., 2013) is a Humanities Research Associate at the University of California, Irvine. He has taught at the University of California, Irvine, California State University at Fullerton, and Azusa Pacific University. He received an M.A. from Texas A&M, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on the philosophy of religion, the early modern period, and existentialism, especially on the thought of Kierkegaard. He is currently working on an anthology of the concept and history of hope.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
1: Introduction
2: The Kierkegaardian Self
3: On Despair
4: Despair and Hope
5: The Concept of Hope
6: Hope and the Task of the Self
7: The First Movement of Faith: Infinite Resignation
8: Hope and the Knight of Faith
Epilogue
Bibliography