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Task of Hope in Kierkegaard

By Mark Bernier

Task of Hope in Kierkegaard

By Mark Bernier

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Scholars have largely ignored hope in Kierkegaard's thought, typically passing over it as a mere description of faith, rather than a theme in its own right. However, Mark Bernier argues that for Kierkegaard hope is one of the most valuable qualities of the religious life, and it is anessential thread connecting despair, faith, and the self. In The Task of Hope in Kierkegaard, he reconstructs Kierkegaard's theory of hope, which involves the distinction between mundane and authentic hope, and makes three principal claims. First, while despair involves the absence of hope, a rejection of oneself, and a turn away from one's relation toGod, despair is fundamentally an unwillingness to hope. This unwillingness is directed toward authentic hope, conceived of by Kierkegaard as an expectation for the possibility of the good. Second, hope is not simply an ancillary activity of the self; rather, the task of becoming a self isessentially constituted by hope. To be in despair, and therefore, to be unwilling to hope, is in fact to reject the task of becoming a self. Third, faith stands in opposition to despair precisely because it is a willingness to hope. An essential role of faith is to secure the ground for hope, and inthis way faith secures the ground for the self. In short, authentic hope-what Kierkegaard calls spiritual hope-is not merely a fringe element, but is essential to Kierkegaard's project of the self.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
236
Release Date:
2015-12-29
Publication Date:
2015-12-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198747888
ISBN13:
9780198747888
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Weight:
523 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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