Kierkegaard, compassion, and the descent of love

International Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-179

  Hoffman, Kevin ^a  

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EID: 63549127939     PISSN: 00190365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/ipq200747240     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Martha C. Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought, The Intelligence of Emotions (Cambridge UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001), p. 548
2. Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love (Princeton NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1995), p. 161, hereafter cited in the text as WOL followed by page number
3. Robert Alter, Genesis, Translation and Commentary (New York NY: W. W. Norton, 1996), p. 181
4. C. Stephen Evans formulates this issue with a different emphasis against modern allergies to divine authority. See Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love, Divine Commands and Moral Obligations (Oxford UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004)
5. Augustine, Confessions (Oxford UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 1991), p. 59
6. See, for example, Peter George, "Something Anti-Social about Works of Love" in Kierkegaard: the Self in Society, ed. George Pattison and Steven Shakespeare (New York NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998)
7. Bruce Kirmmse, Kierkegaard in Golden Age Denmark (Bloomington IN: Indiana Univ. Press, 1990), chap. 19
8. For a fine overall treatment of this ethical theme in Kierkegaard's work generally, see Rick Anthony Furtak's Wisdom in Love, Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity (Notre Dame IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2005)
9. C. Stephen Evans, Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love (Oxford UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004), p. 218
10. M. Jamie Ferreira, Love's Grateful Striving (Oxford UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001), pp. 60, 62,9 6
11. See also Gene Outka, "Equality and Individuality: Thoughts on Two Themes in Kierkegaard," The Journal of Religious Ethics 10 (1982), pp. 171-203
12. Søren Kierkgeaard's Journals and Papers (Bloomington IN: Indiana Univ. Press, 1975), vol. 4, p. 4131
13. Gregor Malanstschuk exaggerates when, in citing these passages, he claims that Works of Love as a whole "is polemically directed against communism." See The Controversial Kierkegaard (Waterloo ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1976), pp. 1-17
14. See Lee C. Barrett, III, "The Neighbor's Material and Social Well-Being in Kierkegaard's Works of Love: Does it Matter?" in International Kierkegaard Commentary: Works of Love, ed. Robert L. Perkins (Atlanta GA: Mercer Univ. Press, 1999), p. 163
15. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (New York NY: Vintage, 1993), pp. 94-97
16. Theodore Adorno, "On Kierkegaard's Doctrine of Love" in Soren Kierkegaard: Modern Critical Views, ed. Harold Bloom (New York NY: Chelsea House, 1989), p. 30