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Re-Staging Existence: Revisiting Kierkegaard’s Theory of Life Stages
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Michael Regier
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July 10, 2024
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In this paper, we re-evaluate Kierkegaard’s theory of life stages (or spheres) and suggest an alternative interpretation. This alternative approach to the stages will serve as a corrective to problems arising from interpretations promoting an ethical-religious stage, or which elide distinctions between stages entirely. To support this interpretation, we will examine the role polarity plays within the stages, the necessity of respecting the boundaries Kierkegaard draws between stages, and advocate for a greater recognition and appreciation of religiousness A within the broader theory. Our hope is to reveal new avenues for understanding Kierkegaard’s ethics, while also contextualizing the pseudonyms in a way that brings greater clarity and consistency between their respective contributions and his broader oeuvre.
Online erschienen: 2024-07-10
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- Titelseiten
- Preface
- Titelseiten
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard’s Works and Journals
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard’s Works and Journals
- Demonic Pantheism: Either/Or on Boredom as the Modern Crisis of Faith
- Kierkegaard, Spiritual Crisis, and Anxious Faith: Battling for Faith in Fear and Trembling and Strengthening in the Inner Being
- “Existence is the Spatiating”: Typographical Thinking and the Concept of Existence in Kierkegaard’s Postscript
- The Sickness unto Death Penalty: To Condemn the Other to Despair for the Sake of One’s Own Despair
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- Section 2: Concepts and Problems in Kierkegaard
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- Ignorance, Frailty, and Defiance: The Anxiety of Freedom
- Not a Negation, but a Position: Kierkegaard on Evil and Sin
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- Section 4: Receptions of Kierkegaard’s Thought
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- La pensée existentielle de Kierkegaard et la philosophie de Charles De Koninck: contexte et résonances
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- Hans Lassen Martensen’s “New Poems by J.L. Heiberg”
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