RT Book
T1 On Kierkegaard and the truth
T2 Holmer, Paul L. 1916-2004, The Paul L. Holmer papers.
JF The Paul L. Holmer papers.
A1 Holmer, Paul L. 1916-2004
A2 Gouwens, David J.
LA English
PP Eugene, Or.
PB Cascade Books
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/689942656
AB Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota (1946-1960) and Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School (1960-1987). Among his many acomplishments, Holmer was one of the most significant American students of Kierkegaard of his generation. Although written in the 1950s and 1960s, Holmer's theological and philosophical engagement with Kierkegaard challenges much in the contemporary scholarly discussions of this important thinker. Unlike many, Holmer refuses reductionist readings that tie Kierkegaard to any particular "school." He likewise criticizes biographical readings of Kierkegaard, much in vogue recently, seeing Kierkegaard rather as an indirect communicator aiming at his reader's own ethical and religious capacities. Holmer also rejects popular existentialist readings of Kierkegaard, seeing him as an analyzer of concepts, while at the same time denying that he is a "crypto-analyst." Holmer criticizes the attempt to construe Kierkegaard as a didactic religious thinker, appreciating Kierkegaard's "cool" descriptive objectivity and his ironic and stylistic virtuosity. In his important reading of Kierkegaard on "truth," Holmer pits Kierkegaard against those who see "truth" empirically, idealistically, or relativistically. Holmer's carefully textured account of Kierkegaard's conceptual grammar of "truth" in ethical and religious contexts, fifty years after it was penned, addresses immediately current discussions of truth, meaning, reference, and realism versus antirealism, relativism, and hermeneutics. It will be of great interest to all interested in Kierkegaard and his importance for contemporary theology and philosophy
NO "Paul L. Holmer : a select bibliography": p. 299-301
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-307) and indexes
CN B4377
SN 1608992721
SN 9781608992720
K1 Kierkegaard, Søren : 1813-1855 : Ethics