Kierkegaard and Consciousness

ISBN: 9780691620428 出版年：2015 页码：218 Shmueli, Adi Princeton University Press

Kierkegaard's philosophy is the description of the structure and behavior of human consciousness. Adi shmueli reconstructs that philosophy by showing that it always reflects the structure in question, and thus provides a useful key to kierkegaard's work. Mr. Shmueli approaches his task by analyzing first the aesthetic, ethical, and religious stages of life as successive steps in the gradual awakening of consciousness. He then describes the alienation of consciousness, of which kierkegaard speaks in all his works, and discusses kierkegaard's theory of indirect communication, philosophical action whose aim is to awaken consciousness in order to rescue it from alienation. Studying kierkegaard's observations on christianity as indirect communication, professor shmueli deals also with his reflections on the philosophical problem of truth.