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Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on Living by a Guiding Passion

  • Thomas Miles
Published/Copyright: October 24, 2013
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Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook
From the journal Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook Volume 2013 Issue 1

Abstract

Contrary to the longstanding philosophical prejudice against the passions, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche both offer an ideal way of life that is guided by a central passion. Both offer an account of how this passion can provide stability, guidance, and direction to one’s life as a whole. This paper explores what Kierkegaard means by passion, how a passion can be guiding for life, and why this is so important. It addresses Nietzsche’s thoughts on passion as a way of furthering this goal by means of a comparison and contrast.

Published Online: 2013-10-24
Published in Print: 2013-10

© 2013 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Masthead
  2. Preface
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Section 1: Kierkegaard’s Concepts, Motifs and Figures
  5. Kierkegaard on the Atonement: The Complementarity of Salvation as a Gift and Salvation as a Task
  6. Recognition and Its Discontents: Johannes de Silentio and the Preacher
  7. In Defense of a Straightforward Reading of Fear and Trembling
  8. Verführung nach Kierkegaard. Ein soziologischer Versuch
  9. Johannes Climacus on Coming into Existence: The Problem of Modality in Kierkegaard’s Fragments and Postscript
  10. Kierkegaard’s Passion for Equality
  11. The Abyss of Demonic Boredom: An Analysis of the Dialectic of Freedom and Facticity in Kierkegaard’s Early Works
  12. Section 2: Love and Passion
  13. Selfless Passion: Kierkegaard on True Love
  14. Kierkegaard, Metaphysics, and Love
  15. Self-Love and Neighbor-Love in Kierkegaard’s Ethics
  16. Love as a Relation to Truth: Envisioning the Person in Works of Love
  17. “Love” Among the Post-Socratics
  18. Love, Death, and the Limits of Singularity
  19. Kierkegaard and the Sheer Phenomenon of Love
  20. Love’s Hidden Laugh: On Jest, Earnestness, and Socratic Indirection in Kierkegaard’s “Praising Love”
  21. Passion as a Will to Existence in Kierkegaard
  22. Section 3: Kierkegaard in Dialogue
  23. Die philosophische Verflüchtigung des Glaubensbegriffs. Kierkegaards Auseinandersetzung mit Immanuel Hermann Fichte
  24. Kierkegaard and the Traditions of the Comic in Philosophy
  25. Why a Danish Golden Age? Structural Holes in 19th Century Copenhagen
  26. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on Living by a Guiding Passion
  27. The Self as a Center of Ethical Gravity: A Constructive Dialogue Between Søren Kierkegaard and George Herbert Mead
  28. Section 4: Current Debates and Controversies
  29. The Soul of a Philosopher: Reply to Turnbull
  30. Abbreviations
  31. List of Contributors
https://doi.org/10.1515/kier.2013.2013.1.435

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Masthead
  2. Preface
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Section 1: Kierkegaard’s Concepts, Motifs and Figures
  5. Kierkegaard on the Atonement: The Complementarity of Salvation as a Gift and Salvation as a Task
  6. Recognition and Its Discontents: Johannes de Silentio and the Preacher
  7. In Defense of a Straightforward Reading of Fear and Trembling
  8. Verführung nach Kierkegaard. Ein soziologischer Versuch
  9. Johannes Climacus on Coming into Existence: The Problem of Modality in Kierkegaard’s Fragments and Postscript
  10. Kierkegaard’s Passion for Equality
  11. The Abyss of Demonic Boredom: An Analysis of the Dialectic of Freedom and Facticity in Kierkegaard’s Early Works
  12. Section 2: Love and Passion
  13. Selfless Passion: Kierkegaard on True Love
  14. Kierkegaard, Metaphysics, and Love
  15. Self-Love and Neighbor-Love in Kierkegaard’s Ethics
  16. Love as a Relation to Truth: Envisioning the Person in Works of Love
  17. “Love” Among the Post-Socratics
  18. Love, Death, and the Limits of Singularity
  19. Kierkegaard and the Sheer Phenomenon of Love
  20. Love’s Hidden Laugh: On Jest, Earnestness, and Socratic Indirection in Kierkegaard’s “Praising Love”
  21. Passion as a Will to Existence in Kierkegaard
  22. Section 3: Kierkegaard in Dialogue
  23. Die philosophische Verflüchtigung des Glaubensbegriffs. Kierkegaards Auseinandersetzung mit Immanuel Hermann Fichte
  24. Kierkegaard and the Traditions of the Comic in Philosophy
  25. Why a Danish Golden Age? Structural Holes in 19th Century Copenhagen
  26. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on Living by a Guiding Passion
  27. The Self as a Center of Ethical Gravity: A Constructive Dialogue Between Søren Kierkegaard and George Herbert Mead
  28. Section 4: Current Debates and Controversies
  29. The Soul of a Philosopher: Reply to Turnbull
  30. Abbreviations
  31. List of Contributors
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