Selves in Discord and Resolve: Kierkegaard's Moral-Religious Psychology from Either/or to Sickness unto Death by Edward Mooney, Mooney Edward

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Synopsis

Vastly underestimated by the very movements that claim Kierkegaard as a source, Kierkegaard presents a highly refined picture of the self in progress. In Selves in Discord and Resolve, Edward Mooney examines the Wittgensteinian and deconstructive accounts of subjectivity to illuminate the rich legacy left by Kierkegaard's representation of the self in modes of self-understanding and self-articulation. Contending that Kierkegaard's philosophy poseses powerful alternatives to contemporary accounts of moral conviction in an uncertain world, Mooney situates Kierkegaard in the context of a post-Nietzschean crisis of individualism.

Mooney presents Kierkegaard as a psychologist, philosopher and poet dialectician. Drawing upon the work of Charles Taylor, and Thomas Nagel, Mooney evokes the Socratric influences on Kierkegaard's thinking and shows how Kierkegaard's philsophy relies upon the Socratic care for the soul. He examines Kierkegaard's work on Judge Wilhelm, from Either/Or, Socrates, in the Postscript and Abraham and Job in Repetition and Fear and Trembling. Tying the complex and interwoven strands of Kierkegaard's thought together, Edward Mooney's paints a compelling portrait of the self—in discord and resolve. Wihelm on Kierkegaard's conception of civic virtue, and provides an enlightening exposition of the different readings of Kierkegaard.

Biography

Edward Mooney, Jr., was born in Massachusetts and raised in Tustin, California. After receiving degrees from Montana State University and the University of California at Riverside he worked as a computer analyst until becoming a high school teacher in 1988. Edward currently lives in Southern California with his wife, Carrie, and their five children.