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A Promise Kept, a Self Repeated? Reading Gjentagelsen with Ricoeur

  • Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal
Published/Copyright: December 22, 2017
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Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook
From the journal Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook Volume 2017 Issue 1

Abstract

Based on Paul Ricoeur’s concept of ipseity and the role of promising for constituting selfhood as non-identical permanence in time, the article revisits the controversy whether or not the young man in Repetition experiences a repetition of the self. Considering Hans Lipps’s notion of the radical openness of a promise based on solicitude as much as Ricoeur’s “fundamental promise” to be faithful to oneself, two different perspectives are provided in order to interpret the young man’s break with his fiancée. According to both perspectives it can coherently be claimed that in the realm of ethical selfhood as depicted by Ricoeur in Oneself as Another and The Course of Recognition, the young man non-identically repeats his self.

Published Online: 2017-12-22
Published in Print: 2017-12-20

© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Preface
  3. Contents
  4. Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives
  5. Unfinished Business: The Time and Space of Irony
  6. Textual Immediacy and Sexual Intimacy: Kierkegaard’s Diary of a Failure
  7. The Politics of Selfhood with Constant Reference to Kierkegaard
  8. Der Mensch als Selbst. Zum Begriff des präreflexiven Selbstbewusstseins in Kierkegaards Krankheit zum Tode (1849)
  9. Prayer as God-knowledge (via Self)
  10. Le phénomène de la souffrance comme élément constitutif de la théophilosophie affirmative de Kierkegaard
  11. Re-reading the Religious – Aesthetically: A Literary Analysis of “The Woman Who Was a Sinner” and The Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air
  12. De te fabula narratur. A Re-active Interplay with Kierkegaard’s Authorship
  13. Section 2: Sourcework Studies
  14. “Everything Has Its Time.” Kierkegaard’s Reading of Ecclesiastes
  15. Schelling in the Kierkegaardian Project: Between Kantian Critique and the Second Ethics
  16. On Kierkegaard’s Reaction to H.N. Clausen
  17. “Philosophy and Christianity can never be united”: The Role of Sibbern and Martensen in Kierkegaard’s Reception of Schleiermacher
  18. On the Origins of Kierkegaard’s Climacus Writings and Paradox Christology
  19. Section 3: Kierkegaard Reception
  20. Kierkegaard’s Reception in Lithuania
  21. The Voice of Conscience, Kierkegaard’s Theory of Indirect Communication, and Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue
  22. A Promise Kept, a Self Repeated? Reading Gjentagelsen with Ricoeur
  23. «Être sans destin»: Imre Kertész, ou le concept d’existence constamment rapporté à Kierkegaard
  24. Section 4: Primary Texts in Translation
  25. Hans Lassen Martensen’s “The Present Religious Crisis”
  26. Section 5: Bibliography
  27. Kierkegaard Literature from 2005 to 2013. A Descriptive Bibliography
  28. Abbreviations
  29. List of Contributors
https://doi.org/10.1515/kierke-2017-0016

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Preface
  3. Contents
  4. Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives
  5. Unfinished Business: The Time and Space of Irony
  6. Textual Immediacy and Sexual Intimacy: Kierkegaard’s Diary of a Failure
  7. The Politics of Selfhood with Constant Reference to Kierkegaard
  8. Der Mensch als Selbst. Zum Begriff des präreflexiven Selbstbewusstseins in Kierkegaards Krankheit zum Tode (1849)
  9. Prayer as God-knowledge (via Self)
  10. Le phénomène de la souffrance comme élément constitutif de la théophilosophie affirmative de Kierkegaard
  11. Re-reading the Religious – Aesthetically: A Literary Analysis of “The Woman Who Was a Sinner” and The Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air
  12. De te fabula narratur. A Re-active Interplay with Kierkegaard’s Authorship
  13. Section 2: Sourcework Studies
  14. “Everything Has Its Time.” Kierkegaard’s Reading of Ecclesiastes
  15. Schelling in the Kierkegaardian Project: Between Kantian Critique and the Second Ethics
  16. On Kierkegaard’s Reaction to H.N. Clausen
  17. “Philosophy and Christianity can never be united”: The Role of Sibbern and Martensen in Kierkegaard’s Reception of Schleiermacher
  18. On the Origins of Kierkegaard’s Climacus Writings and Paradox Christology
  19. Section 3: Kierkegaard Reception
  20. Kierkegaard’s Reception in Lithuania
  21. The Voice of Conscience, Kierkegaard’s Theory of Indirect Communication, and Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue
  22. A Promise Kept, a Self Repeated? Reading Gjentagelsen with Ricoeur
  23. «Être sans destin»: Imre Kertész, ou le concept d’existence constamment rapporté à Kierkegaard
  24. Section 4: Primary Texts in Translation
  25. Hans Lassen Martensen’s “The Present Religious Crisis”
  26. Section 5: Bibliography
  27. Kierkegaard Literature from 2005 to 2013. A Descriptive Bibliography
  28. Abbreviations
  29. List of Contributors
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