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Geglaubte Verzweiflung: Wider eine atheistische Lesart Kierkegaards und ihre Ursächlichkeits-Rhetorik
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Tobias Junker
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July 27, 2016
Abstract
In Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death the self’s other is usually identified with God. But because the sickness of the title is despair, the religious dimension of this text should be considered with particular regard to its psychological dimension. Indeed, one might ask, if meaningful talk about the self is, according to Anti-Climacus, grounded in (Christian) faith or if the latter’s actual usage of the term “despair” much rather implies that the self’s origin and nature can be fully captured from a non-theistic and in fact purely scientific perspective, a perspective which in turn is bound up with or at least gravitates toward existentialism. As I will argue, this second interpretation, which has most recently been defended by Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen, misses crucial points in Kierkegaard’s (mis‐)usage of causality and thus cannot be sustained.
Published Online: 2016-7-27
Published in Print: 2016-7-25
© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Titelei
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives
- Kierkegaard on the Power of Love and Despair
- Geglaubte Verzweiflung: Wider eine atheistische Lesart Kierkegaards und ihre Ursächlichkeits-Rhetorik
- A Figurative Necessity in Dealing with Selfhood in Kierkegaard’s Thinking
- Kierkegaard as an Antimodern Moralist: Re-Thinking “Socio-Political” Categories in Recent Kierkegaard Scholarship
- Fertile Contradictions: A Reconsideration of “The Seducer’s Diary”
- On Separation as the Condition for All Existential Ethics
- Reue als Schlüssel zur existentiellen Selbstwerdung. Überlegungen im Anschluss an Kierkegaards Beichtrede von 1847
- Section 2: Source-Work Studies
- Schleiermacher in the Kierkegaardian Project: Between Socratic Ignorance and Second Immediacy
- The Monumental Task of Kierkegaard’s Attack upon Christendom
- Section 3: Kierkegaard Reception
- Faith in the Mode of Absence: Kierkegaard’s Jewish Readers in 1930s France (Rachel Bespaloff, Benjamin Fondane, Lev Shestov, and Jean Wahl)
- Gesellschaft und Kritische Philosophie. Kierkegaards und Jaspers’ Analyse der geistigen Situation Europas im Vergleich
- Kierkegaard und das ‚jüdische Denken‘: Die Rezeption Sören Kierkegaards in der jüdischen Moderne im Kontext des Orientalismus
- La puissance du don. Le don comme centre de la relation de l’homme avec Dieu, dans les discours édifiants de Kierkegaard, à la lumière de l’herméneutique du don de Jean Paul II
- Martin Heidegger Reads Søren Kierkegaard – or What Did He Actually Read?
- Section 4: Primary Texts in Translation
- Andreas Frederik Beck’s Review of Philosophical Fragments
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
