Excursions with Kierkegaard

Edward F. Mooney is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Syracuse University, USA. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Kierkegaard's Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs(Editor and Introduction, Oxford World Classics, 2009), On Soren Kierkegaard (Ashgate, 2007), Ethics, Love, and Faith in Kierkegaard: A Philosophical Engagement (Indiana University Press, 2008), Selves in Discord and Resolve: Kierkegaard's Moral-Religious Psychology from Either/Or to Sickness Unto Death (Routledge, 1996), and Knights of Faith and Resignation: Reading Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling (State University of New York Press, 1991).

• Introduction / 1. On Self, Others, Goods, Final Faith / 2. On the Mysterious Agency of Death / 3. On Inwardness as Interpersonal / 4. On Style, Genre, Pseudonyms / 5. On Authenticity / 6. On Mirrors, Morality, and Love / 7. On Philosophical Crumbs / 8. On the Maternal: Fear and Trembling as Urtext / 9. On Faith that Defeats Self-Deception / 10. On the Aspiration to Ordinary Subjectivity / Appendix: Erickson, Kristeva, Kierkegaard / Bibliography / Index

Mooney’s voice is a unique one in Kierkegaard studies, attentive and intimate, restless and affirmative, perhaps even a peculiarly American voice, the Dane by way of Whitman and Melville and Emerson. […] Mooney’s soliloquies speak deeply about pain and loss and Kierkegaardian resources for coping with suffering without trivializing it, but there is not much vocabulary of sin or salvation […] Mooney’s Kierkegaard is human and comforting, and that is a vitally important aspect of the work to keep alive.