Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Three Diverse Personas
 1 Kierkegaard, the Melancholy Dane
 2 Wittgenstein, the Austrian Expatriate
 3 Kazantzakis, the Greek Iconoclast

2 Three Differing Philosophies
 1 Kierkegaard’s Ironic Existentialism
 2 Wittgenstein’s Linguistic Analysis
 3 Kazantzakis’ Cosmic Dualism

3 Three Divergent “Theologies”
 1 Kierkegaard’s “Knight of Faith”
 2 Wittgenstein and “God-Talk”
 3 Kazantzakis’ Emerging Deity
Conclusion
 Mediated Transcendence

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Jerry H. Gill (Ph.D. Duke University, 1966) is Professor Emeritus of the College of St. Rose in Albany, NY. He has written and edited over 30 books, and published over 100 articles in professional journals; several on the thinkers central to this study. His major works include Wittgenstein and Metaphor, Mediated transcendence, Deep Postmodernism, and The Tacit Mode.