Thinking with Kierkegaard: Existential Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Ethics

Arne Grøn

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Thinking with Kierkegaard

Existential Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Ethics

Arne Grøn
Edited by: Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen and René Rosfort

Volume 44 in the series Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110793895

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Contents

About this book

Arne Grøn’s reading of Søren Kierkegaard’s authorship revolves around existential challenges of human identity. The 35 essays that constitute this book are written over three decades and are characterized by combining careful attention to the augmentative detail of Kierkegaard’s text with a constant focus on issues in contemporary philosophy. Contrary to many approaches to Kierkegaard’s authorship, Grøn does not read Kierkegaard in opposition to Hegel. The work of the Danish thinker is read as a critical development of Hegelian phenomenology with particular attention to existential aspects of human experience. Anxiety and despair are the primary existential phenomena that Kierkegaard examines throughout his authorship, and Grøn uses these negative phenomena to argue for the basically ethical aim of Kierkegaard’s work. In Grøn’s reading, Kierkegaard conceives human selfhood not merely as relational, but also a process of becoming the self that one is through the otherness of self-experience, that is, the body, the world, other people, and God. This book should be of interest to philosophers, theologians, literary studies scholars, and anyone with an interest not only in Kierkegaard, but also in human identity.

Author / Editor information

Arne Grøn, Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen and René Rosfort, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Tabula Gratulatoria Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Thinking with Kierkegaard: Introduction and Chapter Overview Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Arne Grøn’s Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	XXXIII
Editorial Comments Publicly Available Download PDF	XLV
Acknowledgments and Sources Publicly Available Download PDF	XLVII
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	LI
Part One: Existential Philosophy
Chapter 1 The Concept of Existence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 Existence and Dialectics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 3 The Human Synthesis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 4 Self and Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Chapter 5 Spirit and Temporality in The Concept of Anxiety Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter 6 The Embodied Self: Reformulating the Existential Difference in Kierkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Chapter 7 Temporality in Kierkegaard’s Edifying Discourses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Chapter 8 Mediated Immediacy? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 9 Ein Leben zu führen: Kierkegaard und der Begriff des Lebens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Chapter 10 Zweideutigkeiten der Angst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 11 Subjektivität und Un-Wahrheit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Chapter 12 Religion und Subjektivität – in existenzieller und pragmatischer Perspektive Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Chapter 13 Paradox des Denkens – paradoxes Denken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Part Two: Phenomenology
Chapter 14 Self-Givenness and Self-Understanding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Chapter 15 Phenomenology of Despair – Phenomenology of Spirit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Chapter 16 Time, Courage, Selfhood: Reflections on Kierkegaard’s Discourse “To Preserve One’s Soul in Patience” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Chapter 17 The Relation Between Part One and Part Two of The Sickness Unto Death Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Chapter 18 Transcendence of Thought: The Project of Philosophical Fragments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Chapter 19 Der Begriff Verzweiflung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
Chapter 20 Kierkegaards Phänomenologie? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330
Chapter 21 Phänomenologie der Subjektivität. Überlegungen zu Kierkegaards Abhandlung über die menschliche Freiheit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Chapter 22 Zeit und Transzendenz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Chapter 23 Das Transzendenzproblem bei Kierkegaard und beim späten Schelling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
Part Three: Ethics
Chapter 24 Ethics of Vision Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
Chapter 25 Ethics of In-Visibility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	418
Chapter 26 The Dialectic of Recognition in Works of Love Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	452
Chapter 27 Dialectics of Recognition: Selfhood and Alterity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
Chapter 28 Repetition and the Concept of Repetition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	484
Chapter 29 The Ethical Demand: Kierkegaard, Løgstrup, and Levinas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	497
Chapter 30 Subjectivity, Interiority, and Exteriority: Kierkegaard and Levinas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	513
Chapter 31 Time and History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	530
Chapter 32 Future of Hope – History of Hope Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	554
Chapter 33 Kierkegaards „zweite“ Ethik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	568
Chapter 34 Gegenseitigkeit in Der Liebe Tun? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	578
Chapter 35 Un-sichtbar. Den Nächsten sehen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	593
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	601

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Theologians, philosophers, literary studies scholars
Pages
- Front matter: 52
- Main content: 614
Keywords: Identity; anxiety; despair; love

eBook

Published: December 31, 2022
ISBN: 9783110793895

Hardcover

Published: December 31, 2022
ISBN: 9783110793574