Kant Trouble Book

Kierkegaard is often seen as "just a religious thinker" or "just a writer" and anti-philosophical or anti-intellectual. Pattison objects to this dismissal and offers an interpretive coherence to Kierkegaard's work and situates it within the broader philosophical tradition. Pattison primarily focuses on the roles of existence, anxiety, the good, the infinite qualitative difference, and paradox in Kierkegaard's writing as examples of "philosophic" thinking. I disagreed with Pattison's approach (taking all the pseudonyms as Kierkegaard's own opinions) as well as the conclusion (Kierkegaard, in my opinion, is inherently anti-philosophic in the modern understanding, which is precisely his importance to the modern church), but still felt that Pattison's books offers a fairly cogent interpretation of Kierkegaard and a philosophical justification for reading him (even if I don't think the justification is necessary!)