UID:
almahu_9949474024102882
Format:
1 online resource (176 p.)
ISBN:
9783110226898
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9783110238570
Series Statement:
Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series , 21
Content:
If the Enlightenment turned to reason to reoccupy the place left vacant by the death of God, the history of the last two centuries has undermined the confidence that reason will bind freedom and keep it responsible. We cannot escape this history, which has issued in a pervasive nihilism and has rendered all appeals to the ethical questionable. Nor could Kierkegaard. The specter of nihilism haunts all of his writings, as it haunts already German romanticism, to which he is so indebted. To exorcize it is his most fundamental concern. And it is the same fundamentally religious concern that makes Kierkegaard so relevant to our situation: What today is to make life meaningful? If not reason, does the turn to the aesthetic promise an answer? To really choose is to bind freedom. Either-Or calls us to make such a choice, i.e. to be authentic. But what does it mean to be authentic? How are we today to think of such an authentic choice? As autonomous action? As a blind leap? As a leap of faith? Either/Or circles around these questions.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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1. Introduction --
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2. Diapsalmata --
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3. Immediacy and Reflection --
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4. Don Juan --
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5. Modern Tragedy --
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6. The Fellowship of the Dead --
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7. Kitsch --
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8. The Rotation of Crops --
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9. The Diary of the Seducer --
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10. In Defense of Marriage --
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11. Two Concepts of Freedom --
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12. The Meaning of "Either-Or" --
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13. Ultimatum --
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Backmatter
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1, De Gruyter, 9783110238570
In:
DGBA Backlist Philosophy 2000-2014 (EN), De Gruyter, 9783110238488
In:
DGBA Philosophy 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110636949
In:
E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2010, De Gruyter, 9783110233544
In:
E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2010, De Gruyter, 9783110233551
In:
E-BOOK PAKET THEOLOGIE/RELIGIONSWISS./JUDAISTIK 2010, De Gruyter, 9783110233643
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110226881
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
DOI:
10.1515/9783110226898
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226898
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110226898