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Gesellschaft und Kritische Philosophie. Kierkegaards und Jaspers’ Analyse der geistigen Situation Europas im Vergleich

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Published/Copyright: July 27, 2016
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Abstract

Kierkegaard is an epochal philosopher who represented-not only in himself, but also in his philosophical Total-Tanke-the signs and concerns of an entire age: he defined not only his own Danish Golden Age, but he also contributed significantly to understanding its own deeper crisis through a relentless critique of culture and society in nineteenth-century Copenhagen. In the context of the analysis and the reception of A Literary Review (En Literair Anmeldelse, 1846), and in relation to Kierkegaard’s influence on philosophical and sociological perspectives in contemporary criticism, this paper explores: 1) Kierkegaard’s influence on Karl Jaspers’ book Man in the Modern Age (Die geistige Situation der Zeit, 1931) with particular reference to the latter’s conception of modernity and mass society; 2) the philosophical assumptions underlying the “European spiritual situation” and the destructive aspects of contemporary mass society according to Kierkegaard’s social and political thought; 3) the relevance of Kierkegaard’s diagnosis of the crisis as an opportunity to acquire a deeper understanding of the origin and the nature of human existence.

Published Online: 2016-7-27
Published in Print: 2016-7-25

© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Preface
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives
  5. Kierkegaard on the Power of Love and Despair
  6. Geglaubte Verzweiflung: Wider eine atheistische Lesart Kierkegaards und ihre Ursächlichkeits-Rhetorik
  7. A Figurative Necessity in Dealing with Selfhood in Kierkegaard’s Thinking
  8. Kierkegaard as an Antimodern Moralist: Re-Thinking “Socio-Political” Categories in Recent Kierkegaard Scholarship
  9. Fertile Contradictions: A Reconsideration of “The Seducer’s Diary”
  10. On Separation as the Condition for All Existential Ethics
  11. Reue als Schlüssel zur existentiellen Selbstwerdung. Überlegungen im Anschluss an Kierkegaards Beichtrede von 1847
  12. Section 2: Source-Work Studies
  13. Schleiermacher in the Kierkegaardian Project: Between Socratic Ignorance and Second Immediacy
  14. The Monumental Task of Kierkegaard’s Attack upon Christendom
  15. Section 3: Kierkegaard Reception
  16. Faith in the Mode of Absence: Kierkegaard’s Jewish Readers in 1930s France (Rachel Bespaloff, Benjamin Fondane, Lev Shestov, and Jean Wahl)
  17. Gesellschaft und Kritische Philosophie. Kierkegaards und Jaspers’ Analyse der geistigen Situation Europas im Vergleich
  18. Kierkegaard und das ‚jüdische Denken‘: Die Rezeption Sören Kierkegaards in der jüdischen Moderne im Kontext des Orientalismus
  19. 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
  20. Martin Heidegger Reads Søren Kierkegaard – or What Did He Actually Read?
  21. Section 4: Primary Texts in Translation
  22. Andreas Frederik Beck’s Review of Philosophical Fragments
  23. Abbreviations
  24. List of Contributors
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