A Confusion of the Spheres Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion 1st Edition by Genia Schönbaumsfeld 1435621980 9781435621985

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ISBN 10: 1435621980 

ISBN 13: 9781435621985

Author: Genia Schönbaumsfeld

Cursory allusions to the relation between Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein are common in philosophical literature, but there has been little in the way of serious and comprehensive commentary on the relationship of their ideas. Genia Schönbaumsfeld closes this gap and offers new readings of Kierkegaard’s and Wittgenstein’s conceptions of philosophy and religious belief. Chapter one documents Kierkegaard’s influence on Wittgenstein, while chapters two and three provide trenchant criticisms of two prominent attempts to compare the two thinkers, those by D. Z. Phillips and James Conant. In chapter four, Schönbaumsfeld develops Kierkegaard’s and Wittgenstein’s concerted criticisms of certain standard conceptions of religious belief, and defends their own positive conception against the common charges of ‘irrationalism’ and ‘fideism’. As well as contributing to contemporary debate about how to read Kierkegaard’s and Wittgenstein’s work, A Confusion of the Spheres addresses issues which not only concern scholars of Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard, but anyone interested in the philosophy of religion, or the ethical aspects of philosophical practice as such.

Table of contents:

1. Kierkegaard’s Influence on Wittgenstein’s Thought
Introduction
I Testimonial Evidence
II References to Kierkegaard in Wittgenstein’s Writings
Conclusion

2. The Point of Kierkegaard’s and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Authorship
Introduction
I Parallels in Kierkegaard’s and Wittgenstein’s Conception of Philosophy
II Objections to a ‘Symmetrical’ Reading
Conclusion

3. Sense and Ineffabilia—Kierkegaard and the Tractatus
Introduction
I Conant’s Reading of the Tractatus
II A Critique of Conant’s Reading of the Tractatus
III Interim Conclusions
IV Conant’s Reading of the Postscript
V A Critique of Conant’s Reading of the Postscript
VI Interim Conclusions
VII Kierkegaard and the Mysticism of the Tractatus
Conclusion

4. A Confusion of the Spheres—Kierkegaard’s and Wittgenstein’s Conception of Religious Belief
Introduction
I The ‘Target View’ of Religion
II A Critique of the ‘Target View’: The Kierkegaard-Wittgenstein Conception
III Objections to the Kierkegaard-Wittgenstein Conception
Conclusion

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