Works of Love in a World of Violence (eBook)

Feminism, Kierkegaard, and the Limits of Self-Sacrifice

Deidre Nicole Green (Autor)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
217 Seiten
Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)
978-3-16-154846-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Drawing on the thought of Kant, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche in order to illuminate and interrogate feminist critiques of self-sacrifice, Deidre Nicole Green relies on Kierkegaard's view of Christian love to offer a constructive theological framework for limiting self-sacrifice that resists an overly simplistic identification of self-sacrifice with love. Although Kierkegaard's Works of Love deems Christian love essentially sacrificial, his view of love also circumscribes the role of self-sacrifice within human life. Particularly, it offers the potential for a rigorous and empowering model of forgiveness that challenges traditional ideals of the submissive, permissive woman while keeping love central to the dialogue. Rather than passively accept unjust relationships, works of love must seek to ameliorate a world of violence.

Born 1981; 2007 MA in Religion from Yale Divinity School; 2012 PhD in Religion from Claremont Graduate University with specialization in Women's Studies in Religion and Philosophy of Religion and Theology.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Acknowledgments 8
Preface 10
Contents 12
Introduction 16
1. Kierkegaard and Love 16
2. Definition of Key Terms 17
3. Methodology 18
4. Feminism and Kierkegaard 19
5. Description of Chapters 22
Chapter 1: The Problems of Self­Sacrifice: Womanist and Feminist Theological Perspectives 25
1. Condones Abuse and Justifies Violence 26
2. Necrophilia and Denial of the Female Body 31
3. Targets the Oppressed and Reifies Patriarchal Relations 39
4. Engenders Failure to be Self­Realizing, Self­Defining,and Self-Naming 44
5. Conclusion 51
Chapter 2: Selflessness as Sin: Daly, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard 55
1. Mary Daly 55
2. Friedrich Nietzsche 64
3. Søren Kierkegaard 74
4. Conclusion 85
Chapter 3: Love and Trembling 86
1. Immanuel Kant on the Binding of Isaac 87
2. Kierkegaard on the Binding 92
3. Freedom 100
4. Love and Trembling 104
a) Attunement 106
b) Love as Solid Food 115
c) Abraham’s Trusting Love Protects against Deception 120
d) Absolute Duty to God 123
e) Doubt Affords a Test 125
5. Conclusion 129
Chapter 4: Envisioning Love: Freedom, Risk, and Right Relationship 130
1. Introduction 130
2. Kierkegaard on Christ 131
3. Following Christ 136
4. Picturing Risk: Kierkegaard and Ethical Vision 139
5. Womanist Thought and Feminist Ethics of Risk 144
6. Abraham Re-envisioned or, Risk and Trembling 151
7. The Woman who Loved Much 156
8. Kierkegaard on Love and Agency 162
9. Conclusion 163
Chapter 5: Works of Love in a World of Violence: Kierkegaard, Feminism, and the Limits of Self-sacrifice 165
1. Feminist Critiques of Self­sacrifice 166
2. Kierkegaard and Works of Love 168
3. A Self­Love 172
4. Feminist Ethics and Kierkegaard’s Ethic of Love 176
5. Works of Love in a World of Violence 179
a) Redoubling 180
b) Double Danger 181
6. Winning the One Overcome 185
7. Conclusion 187
Conclusion: Love’s Becoming: Self-Love and the Atonement of Christ 189
Acknowledgments 203
Bibliography 204
Index 216

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• ISBN-10: 3-16-154846-9 / 3161548469
• ISBN-13: 978-3-16-154846-8 / 9783161548468