Wisdom in Love: Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity

The title of Rick Anthony Furtak’s book is programmatic: Wisdom shall
not be seen as the rational alternative to the emotion of love; rather, philosophy, the love of wisdom, shall discover wisdom in love and acknowledge the rationality of emotions. The subtitle refers to the methodological approach: After beginning with a critical consideration of ancient Stoicism and its disdain for the emotions, the study draws upon Søren Kierkegaard’s writings in order to develop a conceptual account of emotional integrity. As the author announces in the preface, the outcome ‘of this guide for the emotionally perplexed is a conception of
what it would mean to trust oneself to be rational in being passionate’

Claudia Welz, ‘Review of Wisdom in Love: Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity,’ Ars Disputandi [http://www.ArsDisputandi.org] 6 (2006), paragraph no 1