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.
© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Articles in the same Issue
- 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
Articles in the same Issue
- 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