Kierkegaard on emotion: a critique of Furtak's Wisdom in Love

Religious Studies 46 (4):489 - 508 (2010)
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In Wisdom in Love: Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity, Rick Furtak argues that emotions are cognitive phenomena to be understood in terms of the relation between subject and object. Furtak uses his conception of emotion to argue (in what he takes to be a Kierkegaardian spirit) that love is the source of meaning and value in human (and, specifically, Christian) life. This paper places Kierkegaard's views, and the role love plays in them, in his historical context. I argue that Furtak's approach fails to account for the subtle and complex role religious love plays in Kierkegaard's thought, and ultimately leaves him at odds with Kierkegaard methodologically and metaphysically

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“Interest” in Kierkegaard’s Structure of Consciousness.Patrick Stokes - 2008 - International Philosophical Quarterly 48 (4):437-458.

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