Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Love’s Incitement
Chapter 3. Love’s Immediacy
Chapter 4. Love’s Intentionality
Chapter 5. Love’s Eternity
Chapter 6. Love’s Fall
Chapter 7. Love’s Fear
Chapter 8. Conclusion
Michael Strawser is chair of the Department of Philosophy and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Central Florida.
Power, prominence, or wealth can’t give real meaning to life—only
love can. This is a vivid account of love and the story of how love
becomes the lodestone of Kierkegaard’s varied and voluminous
writing. In this fine and comprehensive book, Strawser shows how
love stiches a self together and threads out to gently pull in
friends and loved ones, giving verve and traction to a life.
*Edward F. Mooney, Syracuse University*
Michael Strawser’s book. . . is an important contribution to
understanding the universal human experience of love. . . .
Strawser’s phenomenological exploration of love in the writings of
Søren Kierkegaard offers valuable insights into the philosopher’s
life’s work. . . Strawser’s book is an approachable and engaging
discussion that conveys the relevance of Kierkegaard for a
contemporary world very much in need of more love.
*Reading Religion*
According to Michael Strawser, the topic of love has become the
central focus of Kierkegaard research in the early twenty-first
century. Interpreting Kierkegaard as a phenomenological
thinker, Strawser brings the ideas of a nineteenth-century author
usefully into dialogue with recent and contemporary
philosophers of love and emotion. His discussion is thus aimed at
readers who wish to understand Kierkegaard, or love, or both.
*Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College*
Power, prominence, or wealth can’t give real meaning to life—only
love can. This is a vivid account of love and the story of how love
becomes the lodestone of Kierkegaard’s varied and voluminous
writing. In this fine and comprehensive book, Strawser shows how
love stitches a self together and threads out to gently pull in
friends and loved ones, giving verve and traction to a life.
*Edward F. Mooney, Syracuse University*
According to Michael Strawser, the topic of love has become the
central focus of Kierkegaard research in the early twenty-first
century. Interpreting Kierkegaard as a phenomenological
thinker, Strawser brings the ideas of a nineteenth-century author
usefully into dialogue with recent and contemporary
philosophers of love and emotion. His discussion is thus aimed at
readers who wish to understand Kierkegaard, or love, or both.
*Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College*
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