Author : Abrahim H. Khan
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889207461
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)
Book Synopsis Salighed As Happiness? by : Abrahim H. Khan
Download or read book Salighed As Happiness? written by Abrahim H. Khan and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.