What Is Ethically Demanded?

“Løgstrup’s intent—to reach the secular world with the message of Jesus—is a contemporary issue of vital importance. . . . [This] is a work most likely to be appreciated by scholars and advanced students in philosophy and theology.” —Catholic Library World

"This book introduces Løgstrup's central idea of 'the ethical demand' and probes various aspects of how it should best be understood and its significance for ethics. While some recent work has explored the relation between The Ethical Demand and some of Løgstrup's later work, especially on the 'sovereign expressions of life,' one thing that is interesting about this collection is that while it further advances those discussions, it also traces elements of Løgstrup's thought back to his earlier work—chiefly, but not only, through the inclusion of a translation of his relatively early essay 'The Anthropology of Kant's Ethics.' The collection will make a significant contribution to the progress of the study of Løgstrup in English. It will make an excellent companion volume to other titles published by Notre Dame by and about Løgstrup." —John Lippitt, University of Hertfordshire

“Fink and Stern’s collection reveals just why this Danish thinker is a landmark in ethical conversation. . . . Each part of the book provides new ways of seeing the ethical demand of [the] subjectivity present in Løgstrup's philosophy. . . . Phenomenologists and ethicists will do well to take note.” —Studies in Christian Ethics

"Knud Ejler Løgstrup's The Ethical Demand should have been recognized long ago as, at least, a minor classic if not a landmark in twentieth-century moral philosophy. Hopefully Fink and Stern's excellent collection of essays will help Løgstrup's writings receive the reading and reception they deserve. The best of the essays in this volume are philosophically subtle and morally engaged in ways that reveal the significance and depth of Løgstrup's demanding ethical thought." —J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research

“The opening selection from Løgstrup’s early writings, the 14 engaging and diverse assessments of Løgstrup’s work, and the editors Hans Fink’s and Robert Stern’s close interweaving of these essays into 4 clear and critical divisions make Løgstrup’s relevance apparent. . . . Hence, this volume could easily become a handbook for graduate programs and schools of theology wishing to teach this compelling, but long neglected thinker.” —Reading Religion