Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or

by Karsten Harries

If the Enlightenment turned to reason to reoccupy the place left vacant by the death of God, the history of the last two centuries has undermined the confidence that reason will bind freedom and keep it responsible. We cannot escape this history, which has issued in a pervasive nihilism and has rendered all appeals to the ethical questionable. Nor could Kierkegaard. The specter of nihilism haunts all of his writings, as it haunts already German...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311022688X
• ISBN13: 9783110226881
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary