Abstract
This book proposes that Christian existentialism and, in particular, the work of Søren Kierkegaard, helped shape Spark’s religious commitments and her artistic innovations. Because of the prominence, after the Second World War, of the atheistic existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, it is often forgotten that existentialism was originally a Christian philosophy, shaped by followers of Kierkegaard such as Karl Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781474447232, 9781474447225 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781474447201, 9781474447218 |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2019 |
Keywords
- Kierkegaard
- Catholicism
- existentialism
- Muriel Spark
- the personal
- narrative innovation