A Confusion of the Spheres - Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion (2007)

Title: A Confusion of the Spheres - Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion
Author: Genia Schönbaumsfeld
Category: Academic/Religion/Philosophy
Publisher: Oxford University Press (November 17, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199229821
ISBN-13: 978-0199229826



Promotional info/Publisher's summary - "Cursory allusions to the relation between Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein are common in the 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 the "spaceship view" of religion and defends it against the common charges of "fideism" and "irrationalism".

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."

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