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The Human Embrace The Love of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Love
Kierkegaard, Cavell, Nussbaum Ronald L. Hall
1999 | 6 x 9 inches
Philosophy
Hardback: $69.00 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-01952-9
Paperback: $26.00 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-01953-6
Starting
from Søren Kierkegaard's insight that fully accepting the human
condition requires one to live with the persistent temptation to escape
from it, Ronald Hall finds similar concerns reflected in the work
of two modern-day philosophers, Stanley Cavell and Martha Nussbaum,
who equally find in a philosophy of love and marriage the key to understanding
how humans may achieve happiness in the acceptance of their humanity.
All three thinkers follow a "logic of paradox" in showing how success
in the human quest to be human depends crucially on the struggle
humans experience with the ever-present opportunities to pursue
alternative paths. What Kierkegaard called "living existentially"
can be achieved only after confronting and refusing the possibilities
of living in "aesthetic," "ethical," or even "religious" denial
of one's true humanity.
By creating this dialogue between the nineteenth-century Danish
thinker and two eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Hall reveals
the continuing relevance of Kierkegaard's thought to our own age
and its cogency as an interpretation of the human predicament.
Ronald
L. Hall is Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator for the Philosophy
and Religious Studies Program at Francis Marion University. He is
the author of Word and Spirit: A Kierkegaardian Critique of of
Modern Age (Indiana, 1993).
