Description: As Kangas shows, Kierkegaard's retrieval of the sudden quality of temporality allows him to stage a deep critique of the idealist projects of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. By linking Kierkegaard's thought to the tradition of Meister Eckhart, Kangas formulates the central problem of these early texts and puts them into contemporary light--can thinking hold itself open to the challenges of temporality?
Review Quotes:
". . . [This] closely-argued and scrupulously-sourced [volume] . . . make[s] an important contribution to Kierkegaard Studies and to the important work of situating Kierkegaard's vocabulary and concerns in the intellectual context of his time. . .Vol. 65 2009"--P. Stokes, Soren Kierkegaard Research Ctr, U Copenhagen
"Kangas's theoretical contribution, and his careful locating of Kierkegaard in historial context, allows him to bring even the most enigmatic of Kierkegaardian texts to life."--Vanessa Rumble, Boston College