Living Philosophy in Kierkegaard, Melville, and Others

Edward F. Mooney is Professor Emeritus in Religion and Philosophy at Syracuse University, USA. He is the author of Excursions with Thoreau: Philosophy, Poetry, Religion (Bloomsbury 2015) and nine other books, including Lost Intimacy in American Thought (Bloomsbury. 2009), and On Søren Kierkegaard: Dialogue, Polemic, Lost Intimacy and Time (2007). His work has been translated into French, Japanese, Hebrew, and Portuguese.

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Passionate Speech: Improvisations in the Disorders of Desire
2. The Very Tang of Life: Lyrical Jesting in Kierkegaard’s Postscript Title
3. Existentialism: Hardly Navel-Gazing
4. Henry Bugbee, Religious Philosopher
5. Melville: What Philosophers Learn at Sea
6. Where is God?: Ahab at Sea
7. Intimate Communions
8. Who is Kierkegaard?
9. Kierkegaard, Seduction, and Circus Identity
10. Difficult Faith and Living Well
11. Faith Can’t Be Self-Deceptive
12. Nurturing Love
13. Socrates: Of Woman Born
14. Literature, Philosophy, and Existential Contributions
Epilogue: Truths in the Trenches
Notes
Bibliography
Index