Living Philosophy in Kierkegaard, Melville, and Others

Edward F. Mooney is Professor Emeritus in Religion and Philosophy at Syracuse University, USA. He is the author of Excursions with Thoreau: Philosophy, Poetry, Religion (Bloomsbury 2015) and nine other books, including Lost Intimacy in American Thought (Bloomsbury. 2009), and On Søren Kierkegaard: Dialogue, Polemic, Lost Intimacy and Time (2007). His work has been translated into French, Japanese, Hebrew, and Portuguese.

• Acknowledgments Preface 1. Passionate Speech: Improvisations in the Disorders of Desire 2. The Very Tang of Life: Lyrical Jesting in Kierkegaard’s Postscript Title 3. Existentialism: Hardly Navel-Gazing4. Henry Bugbee, Religious Philosopher 5. Melville: What Philosophers Learn at Sea 6. Where is God?: Ahab at Sea 7. Intimate Communions 8. Who is Kierkegaard?9. Kierkegaard, Seduction, and Circus Identity10. Difficult Faith and Living Well 11. Faith Can’t Be Self-Deceptive12. Nurturing Love13. Socrates: Of Woman Born 14. Literature, Philosophy, and Existential ContributionsEpilogue: Truths in the Trenches NotesBibliography Index

Mooney renders the difficulties of Kierkegaard readily accessible, and numerous chapters make effective primers for its various thinkers. [This book] makes for compelling and engaging reading.