This major study of Kierkegaard and love explores Kierkegaard's description of love's treachery, difficulty, and hope. It reads his Works of Love as a text that both deciphers and complicates the central books in his pseudonymous canon: Fear and Trembling, Repetition, Either/Or and Stages on Life's Way. Amy Laura Hall argues that a spiritual void brings each text into being, and her interpretation is as much about faith as about love. Her scholarly and lyrical style makes this study a poetic contribution to ethics and the philosophy of religion.
Author(s): Amy Laura Hall
Series: Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 236
Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
List of abbreviations......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
Introduction......Page 15
WRITING TO OFFEND......Page 25
CONVERTING THE DANCE HALLS......Page 30
THE LAW OF LOVE......Page 36
STRUCTURAL INTIMATIONS......Page 38
THE BONDAGE OF A CHRISTIAN......Page 51
CHRIST IN THE PARLOR......Page 55
A PENULTIMATE NOTE......Page 59
DWELLING WITH SIN......Page 62
INTRODUCTION......Page 65
CONSIDERING ABRAHAM AND DOUBTING OURSELVES......Page 70
MOUNTING A WINGED HORSE......Page 77
LIFE UNDER DIVINE CONFISCATION......Page 83
FOR CAIN AND ABRAHAM ARE NOT IDENTICAL......Page 85
THAT THE LORD MAY HAVE MERCY UPON US......Page 89
RETURNING TO MOUNT MORIAH......Page 92
INTRODUCTION......Page 97
TEXTUAL INTENTIONS......Page 98
LOVING AS THE POETS DO......Page 100
THE TOUGH SLIME OF SAGACITY......Page 103
THE VAMPIRE VISITS BERLIN......Page 106
THE HIGHER POET OF REPETITION II......Page 110
DIVINE PROTECTION IN WORKS OF LOVE......Page 114
REPETITION, BUT WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING......Page 119
DISENGAGING THE TEXT......Page 122
WILLIAM’S BAPTIZED THIEVERY......Page 126
INTERLUDE: THEFT IN THE SANCTUARY......Page 133
AN ULTIMATUM......Page 135
THE ‘‘TEMPERATE CLIMATE’’ FOR LOVE......Page 141
A BRIEF WORD IN CLOSING TO THOSE OF THE FAIR SEX......Page 148
INTRODUCTION......Page 153
DIVINING RODS AND UNMENTIONABLE CRAVINGS......Page 156
OBJECTIONS TO THE MARRIED MAN’S ANSWER......Page 159
STAGES ON LOVE’S WAY?......Page 165
INTERLUDE......Page 166
THE DIARIST’S RETREAT......Page 167
OF SECRETS AND SALVES......Page 171
THE PRAYER OF A DIARIST......Page 174
FROM DIARY TO DISPATCH......Page 177
LOVING THE LEPER WITHIN......Page 180
INTRODUCTION......Page 186
WHAT LOVE IS NOT......Page 189
MORAL VERTIGO......Page 193
CRAWLING IN VAIN......Page 196
INDENTURED TO GOD......Page 202
INTRODUCTION......Page 214
1 THE CALL TO CONFESSION IN KIERKEGAARD’S WORKS OF LOVE......Page 215
2 PROVOKING THE QUESTION: DECEIVING OURSELVES IN FEAR AND TREMBLING......Page 220
3 THE POET, THE VAMPIRE, AND THE GIRL IN REPETITION WITH WORKS OF LOVE......Page 224
4 THE MARRIED MAN AS MASTER THIEF IN EITHER/OR......Page 226
5 SECLUSION AND DISCLOSURE IN STAGES ON LIFE’S WAY......Page 227
6 ON THE WAY......Page 229
SECONDARY WORKS......Page 231
Index......Page 235
