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- ISBN 9780199581962
- Weight: 284g
- Dimensions: 138 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 11 Mar 2010
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, 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.
Genia Schönbaumsfeld is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. She is the author of The Illusion of Doubt (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Transzendentale Argumentation und Skeptizismus (Peter Lang, 2000), as well as of many papers in the areas of Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, scepticism and the philosophy of religion. She is Associate Editor of the journal Philosophical Investigations and elected member of Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. She has just finished a book for the Cambridge Elements series on Wittgenstein and Religion, and is pursuing a new research project that will bring Kierkegaard's 'existential' conception of doubt to bear on central questions in contemporary epistemology.
