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Can a Christian be a friend? : God, friendship and love of neighbor
Lippitt, John (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) -
Cracking the mirror: on Kierkegaard s concerns about friendship
Lippitt, John (2007) -
Critical Friendships Among Beginning Philosophers : research report on a mini-project funded by the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies of the Higher Education Academy
Larvor, B.; Lippitt, John; Weston, Kathryn Louise (University of Hertfordshire, 2011)In a mini-project funded by the Subject Centre, we reviewed the educational literature on peer support and used focus groups to explore students' ideas of academic and critical friendship. We report on our findings, make ... -
Either Kierkegaard/Or Nietzsche: Moral Philosophy in a New Key [book review]
Lippitt, John (2007) -
Erich Fromm : the integrity of the self and the practice of love
Lippitt, John (Ashgate Publishing, 2011) -
Existential laughter
Lippitt, John (1996)Each of the previous three articles in this series has examined one of the three main traditions of humour theory; those based around incongruity, superiority and the release of energy. We have seen that each of these ... -
Forgiveness
Lippitt, John (Taylor & Francis Group, 2014-06-28)After opening with a brief discussion of the etymology of the Danish terms Tilgivelse and Forladelse, this paper moves on to discuss how Kierkegaard addresses the theme of forgiveness throughout his authorship. The discussion ... -
Forgiveness and the Rat Man : Kierkegaard, 'narrative unity' and 'wholeheartedness' revisited
Lippitt, John (Edinburgh University Press, 2015-05)In Narrative Identity, Autonomy and Mortality: from Frankfurt and MacIntyre to Kierkegaard (Routledge, 2012), John Davenport has responded in detail to criticisms made by myself and others of the attempt to distinguish ... -
Forgiveness: a work of love?
Lippitt, John (2017-11-27)What difference would it make to our understanding of the process of interpersonal forgiveness to treat it as what Kierkegaard calls a ‘work of love’? In this article, I argue that such an approach – which I label ‘love’s ... -
A Funny Thing Happened To Me On The Way To Salvation: : Climacus as Humorist in Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Lippitt, John (Routledge, 2002) -
Getting the story straight: Kierkegaard, MacIntyre and some problems with narrative
Lippitt, John (2007) -
Giving the 'dear self' its due : Kierkegaard, Frankfurt and self-love
Lippitt, John (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015-10-22)In her highly critical account of Harry Frankfurt's account of self-love (in this volume), Sylvia Walsh presents Kierkegaard’s Christian view as a corrective to Frankfurt’s naturalistic account. Walsh criticises Frankfurt ... -
Humour
Lippitt, John (Blackwell, 1992) -
Humour
Lippitt, John (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) -
Humour and incongruity
Lippitt, John (1994)The first in a series of articles on the philosophy of humour and laughter looks at attempts made to explain humour in terms of incongruity. -
Humour and Irony in Kierkegaard's Thought
Lippitt, John (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000)Irony, humor and the comic play vital yet under-appreciated roles in Kierkegaard's thought. Focusing upon the Concluding Unscientific Postscript, this book investigates these roles, relating irony and humor as forms of the ... -
Humour and release
Lippitt, John (1995)The third article in this series looks at Freud's attempt to explain humour and laughter in terms of the release of 'psychic energy'. -
Humour and religion : humour, irony and the comic in western theology and philosophy
Lippitt, John (Macmillan, 2005) -
Humour and superiority
Lippitt, John (1995)This is the second in a series of articles on the philosophy of humour and laughter. This article looks at the attempts which are made to explain humour in terms of superiority.