Living Philosophy in Kierkegaard, Melville, and Others

Download or read book Living Philosophy in Kierkegaard, Melville, and Others written by Edward F. Mooney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward F. Mooney takes us into the lived philosophies of Melville, Kierkegaard, Henry Bugbee, and others who write deeply in ways that bring philosophy and religion into the fabric of daily life, in its simplicities, crises, and moments of communion and joy. Along the way Mooney explores meditations on wilderness, on the enigma of self-deception, the role of maternal love and the pain of separations, and the pervasiveness of “difficult reality” where valuable things are presented to us under two (or more) aspects at once.