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    Kierkegaard's Ontology: The Faith to Be

    Kierkegaard's Ontology by Spinks, Casey;

    The Faith to Be

    Series: New Kierkegaard Research;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 30 April 2026

    • ISBN 9781666981926
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages240 pages
    • Size 232x156x20 mm
    • Weight 500 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    For Kierkegaard, to be is to be in relationship to God. Bringing this understanding to Kierkegaard's authorship helps uncover his fundamental ontology.

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    Long description:

    What is it to be? And what is it to be a Christian? Casey Spinks suggests these two questions belong together when readers attend to Kierkegaard's authorship, and such attention calls for the task of uncovering Kierkegaard's fundamental ontology.

    This book argues that the heart of that ontology is to be found in the religious discourses of his Second Authorship. Using the devotional discourse The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air as his guide, Spinks argues that Kierkegaard offers a distinct Christian sense of being: faith. In particular, in his Second Authorship, he moves from irony to earnestness, and identifies silence, obedience, and joy as ontologically significant categories. This Christian ontology fundamentally opposes the rationalist ontology of G.W.F. Hegel-as well as any other philosophical ontology based on autonomous reason or human subjectivity. As a result, Kierkegaard proves to be a unique Christian figure in the history of Western metaphysics, one with forceful relevance to contemporary questions of first philosophy and first theology.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    A Note on Abbreviations
    Part One: Introduction
    Being and the Essentially Christian
    Part Two: Being an Ontological Writer
    Chapter Two: (Not) Being a Knower
    Chapter Three: Being Edified
    Part Three: Being-In-Itself: Silence
    Chapter Four: Being Silent
    Chapter Five: Against Being Bound to Human Speech
    Part Four: Being-For-Itself: Obedience
    Chapter Six: Being Obedient
    Chapter Seven: Against Being a Master
    Part Five: Being-In-And-For-Itself: Joy
    Chapter Eight: Being Joy
    Chapter Nine: Against Being in Despair
    Part Six: Conclusion
    The End of the Path of Thinking
    Bibliography
    Index

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