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The Aporia of Decision: Revisiting the Question of Decision in Kierkegaard
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Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen
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June 21, 2014
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In this essay I will examine the various ways in which the concept of decision emerges in the writings of Kierkegaard focusing mainly on the Philosophical Fragments and the Postscript. This prepares the way for revisiting Kierkegaard’s concept of decision. Doing so indicates the radical way in which Kierkegaard connects the concept of decision to an aporia. The crucial existential concept of decision not only concerns the difficulty, or even the impasse, pertaining to knowledge, but also relates to the question of how the singular finds his or her own way through existence
Published Online: 2014-6-21
Published in Print: 2014-6-1
© 2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Abbreviations
Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Section 1: Kierkegaardian Philosophical Concepts: Self-Understanding and Existence
- “Ne Quid Nimis.” Kierkegaard and the Virtue of Temperance
- Going No Further: Toward an Interpretation of “Problema III” in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling
- The Aporia of Decision: Revisiting the Question of Decision in Kierkegaard
- Kierkegaard in Nature: The Fragility of Existing with Naturalism
- Section 2: Kierkegaardian Religious Concepts: Reason, Faith, Imitation
- Kierkegaard’s Aesthetics and the Aesthetic of Imitation
- Søren Kierkegaard’s Historical Jesus as the Christ of Faith
- Faith in a Rational Age: A Dialogue with Climacus
- Climacus and Kierkegaard on the Outward Relationship with God
- Section 3: Rediscovering Kierkegaard’s Sources
- Shaftesbury—An Important Forgotten Indirect Source of Kierkegaard’s Thought
- Freedom and the Temporality of Despair
- “A Swarm of Laughter!” On Kierkegaard’s Conception of Enthusiasm and Its Comedic Remedy, an Enlightenment Inheritance
- Section 4: 20th Century Responses to Kierkegaard
- Ways of Dying: The Double Death in Kierkegaard and Blanchot
- Das Problem des religiösen Akosmismus in der Kierkegaard-Rezeption von Karl Jaspers
- Kierkegaard, Hannah Arendt and the Advent of the “Hollow Men” or towards a Kierkegaardian Reading of Eichmann in Jerusalem
- Von der Kulturkritik der „Menge“ zur existenzialen Analytik des „Man“
- Abbreviations
