Monday, March 30, 2009

Updates

I have done some more updating on my Recommended Reading List

It is still very much a work in progress, as I have to add many more books that I have already read, and intend to include on the list, particularly quite a few by Rollo May.

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Either-Or

In my Kierkegaard studies I have recently gone back through books of his I have read to re-read the introductions in the light of having some grasp of the material. One book I think I will have to revisit, the first book of kierkegaards I ever picked up (but was woefully unprepared for at the time) is Either/Or. Kierkegaard, or his pseudonymous writer, rather, presents two ways of being, the aesthetic and the ethical. Indeed, what a challenge we are confronted with, what choices. And no one distills it down like Kierkegaard, with his intense inwardness and appreciation for subjective experience.