Publication Date
Fall 9-1-2008
Description
This article retraces the “genealogy” of the fideist perspective in philosophy as well as literature, especially within the writings of Søren Kierkegaard and the novel Don Quixote. It contends that a demythologized perspective of the fideist-humanist sort, based upon Erasmian tolerance and intellectual creativity and updated with the insights of post-analytic theory (e.g., the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, Richard Rorty, and Jeffrey Stout), without revoking the vocabulary of transcendence, can reinforce the weathered but still valuable post-Enlightenment moral vocabulary, and can reiterate the humaneness of liberal hope without undue encumbrance from the dogmatic baggage of traditional theological jargon and metaphysics.
Journal
Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions
Volume
4
First Page
231
Last Page
247
Department
Comparative Humanities
Link to Published Version
http://people.stfx.ca/wsweet/PCT-Vol.4.pdf
Recommended Citation
Shields, James. "Faith and the Sublation of Modernity: Kierkegaard and the Transformation of Fideism." Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions (2008) : 231-247.
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