This textbook is a compilation of central and representative texts taken from the German Søren Kierkegaard Edition. This first volume contains texts from Kierkegaard's literary legacy drawn from the first three volumes of the German Søren Kierkegaard Edition
Cover -- Title Page -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Rags to Riches -- 2. The Bad Penny -- 3. Audience -- 4. Faust and the Feminine -- 5. Either/Or -- 6. The Shower Bath -- 7. Winding Up -- 8. The Single Individual -- 9. Thief and Martyr -- 10. Death and its Impact -- 11. In Time's Centrifuge -- References -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements
Intro -- Contents -- 1 Existence and Education -- 1.1 Introduction: Why Kierkegaard Matters to Education -- 1.2 Kierkegaard's Life and Works: Between Aestheticism, Duty and Faith -- 1.3 Stages of Existence -- 1.4 The Limits of Systematic Knowledge -- 2 Authenticity as Ideal and Idol -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Becoming Oneself -- 2.3 Self-choice and Autonomy -- 2.4 Modes and Failures of Self-realization -- 2.5 Authenticity in Education -- 3 Self-Cultivation and Its Discontents -- 3.1 Introduction: The Classical Notion of Bildung -- 3.2 Kierkegaard and Bildung -- 4 Dialogue and Indirect Communication -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Challenges for Existential Education -- 4.3 Irony, Dialectics and Maieutics -- 4.4 Concepts and Practices of Indirect Communication -- 5 Needs and Dangers of Ambitious Educational Ideals -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Existential Education as Impractical or Elitist? -- 5.3 Against Education? -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References.
Richard McCombs presents Søren Kierkegaard as an author who deliberately pretended to be irrational in many of his pseudonymous writings in order to provoke his readers to discover the hidden and paradoxical rationality of faith. Focusing on pseudonymous works by Johannes Climacus, McCombs interprets Kierkegaardian rationality as a striving to become a self consistently unified in all its dimensions: thinking, feeling, willing, acting, and communicating. McCombs argues that Kierkegaard's strategy of feigning irrationality is sometimes brilliantly instructive, but also partly misguided. This