Reviews for Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity

The average rating for Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-12-12 00:00:00 Florian Otto This book, inasmuch as I could understand it, is a valuable contribution to the scholarly exposition of Kierkegaard's complex authorship. The problem was that the writing was very dense and not always as clear as I thought it could have been. There were times when the deep profundity of Kierkegaard clearly came through and other times when for several pages or more what Harvie Ferguson wrote seemed nearly incomprehensible. The final effect is a mixture of thinking the book was a brilliant presentation of Kierkegaard's writings while also missing much of that brilliance because of the manner of writing. It was worth the painstaking effort to read, but I wish I could have a better idea of how all the parts fit together in what seems like a valuable approach to Kierkegaard, as himself an expositor of modernistic melancholy in relation to faith. Probably the more scholarly readers could better navigate the prose, but unfortunately for most lay readers Harvie Ferguson presents a very difficult book.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-06-21 00:00:00 Anthony Braxton A wonderful introduction into the philosophy of religious language. Stiver cleverly and helpfully charts the history of religious language and the philosophy of language all the way to the late 20th century (when the book was written). Any student of philosophy of religion or theology would greatly benefit from this work. While other reviews may consider it dry and boring, the opposite couldn't be more true.