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Philosophy Social

Salighed As Happiness?

Kierkegaard on the Concept Salighed

by (author) Abrahim H. Khan

Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2006
Category
Social, Philosophers, Research
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780889207462
    Publish Date
    Jan 2006
    List Price
    $32.95

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This work is an exposition of Salighed, a concept at the heart of Kierkegaard's thought, and the dialectical starting point for his reflections on what it means to live a genuinely human life. Kierkegaard studies to date appear to have underestimated the importance of the word and the concepts that lie behind it—perhaps because the word appears easily translated into the English forms of "eternal happiness" or "blessedness." This, suggests Khan, does little justice to the concepts behind the word, and does even less justice to the relationships of the concept of Salighed to other concepts crucial to Kierkegaard's thought. Khan's approach to this word/concept study has been greatly augmented by his use of the computer in analyzing word-relatedness, context, and frequency of occurrence, both within individual works and in comparing one work with a context of the Kierkegaard corpus.

The volume will, of course, be of interest to students of Kierkegaard. It will also be of interest to those scholars intrigued by the possibilities of using computers in linguistic research and in literary studies.

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