Selfhood and Otherness in Kierkegaard's Authorship (eBook)

A Heterological Investigation

Leo Stan (Autor)

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2017
248 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498541343 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the multiple meaning of the notion of otherness in Søren Kierkegaard’s thought. Leo Stan discusses in detail the threefold structure of human existence in Kierkegaard’s authorship as a whole, both pseudonymous and self-signed.

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This book investigates the polysemy of the category of otherness in Soren Kierkegaard's authorship as a whole. Leo Stan identifies, expands upon, and discusses the interconnections between four different senses of otherness: the other within the human self, the infinite alterity of God, the paradoxical alterity of Christ, and the alterity of the human other. He also analyzes in detail the three stages of human existence: the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. His claim is that in its Kierkegaardian version, otherness can be understood only within the redemption-oriented framework of Christianity and in strict correlation with an ethic of singular persons.

Autor

Leo Stan earned his PhD at McMaster University.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1: Otherness in the Aesthetic SphereChapter 2: Ethical Self-Realization and Immanent OthernessChapter 3: A Soteriological Detour: The Problem of SinChapter 4: Theo-Heterological Considerations: The Radical Alterity of GodChapter 5: Kierkegaard’s Christian Heterology: The Paradoxical Otherness of Jesus ChristChapter 6: With(out) Others: The Place of Human Alterity in Kierkegaard’s ThoughtConclusionBibliography

Rezensionen

Leo Stan’s Selfhood and Otherness in Kierkegaard's Authorship is an outstanding study that explores Kierkegaard’s analyses of different versions of the other. He thus allows Kierkegaard to take his rightful place as an important forerunner of the tradition of heterology that runs from Rosenzweig to Levinas. While this topic has at times been touched upon in the literature, it has never been explored with the acuity and depth of analysis of Stan’s investigation. This work will give both students and scholars a greater appreciation for Kierkegaard’s views on ethics, psychology, personal identity, and religion.

Kierkegaard's understanding of alterity or otherness is a topic of white-hot debate amongst students of the Danish philosopher/poet/ theologian. It is also a topic that brings Kierkegaard into vibrant conversation with modern masters such as Adorno, Levinas, and Buber. Refreshingly heterodox, Stan's long percolating study is rigorously researched and deftly argued. It is the most comprehensive and in-depth analysis of Kierkegaard's view on alterity available today, and I suspect that it will remain the standard on this subject in the years to come.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.10.2017
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Schlagworte: Adorno • Aesthetics • Agape • Alienation • Alterity • Christian Philosophy • Continental Philosophy • Creativity • elitism • ethics • finitude • Leo Stan • Love • Philosophy of Religion • Plato • Religious Studies • Seduction • Sin • Solipsism • Soteriology • Theology • The Other • The Self
• ISBN-13: 9781498541343 / 9781498541343