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Selves in Discord and Resolve: Kierkegaard's Moral-Religious Psychology From Either/Or to Sickness Unto Death

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Selves in Discord and Resolve is without doubt one of the very best books on Kierkegaard in the last decade, along with books by Westphal, Rudd, Evans, Gouwens, and the Cambridge Companion volume. Mooney's style is so smooth and easy to follow that, even though the book's topics are often challenging, an advanced undergraduate would get lots out of this book in a seminar. Mooney links themes in Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works with ideas from recent work in analytic moral psychology, and also with ideas from several postmodern authors. He clarifies Kierkegaard's understanding of the development of the self like no other critic, and in the process sheds novel light on several of SK's most important texts. This is essential reading for all Kierkegaard scholars. At the 1999 American Philosophical Association conference in Boston, Alasdair MacIntyre said that Mooney's work was the by far the best he knew of those that discussed and responded to his own criticisms of Kierkegaard --high praise indeed! I recommend this book wholeheartedly.

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not a bad book,VERY concise, more into (post)analytic ethics than continental writers.. just don't think its a five star work, too expensive for the limited size, otherwise eloquently written and may go into a list of helpful readings.