... and Kierkegaard suggests strongly that both knowledge and faith belong to the former—and thus undermines the respective values usually given to these terms. Apollodorus “Ash Wednesday” Eliot Borges Jorge Luis Eliade Mircea Eliot T S Fold “The Garden of Forking Paths” Borges Labyrinths Plutarch Deleuze...

...Kierkegaard's thesis on irony develops the paradox he inherits from Schlegel: how can irony, which is indirection itself, become compatible with philosophy, which responds to the imperative to speak directly about its own consciousness as well as whatever else it can know. A tentative solution...

...In Being and Time, Heidegger has left what he calls temporal problematic unclear and open to misunderstanding. He takes his concept of temporality, in its distinction in particular from time, from Kierkegaard. By pursuing that link, it is possible to outine what Heidegger means...

..., that Ricoeur and Foucault offer a more radical hermeneutics, and that Kierkegaard and Nietzsche offer a still more radical hermeneutics. It also suggests a more penetrating analysis of the failure of the Enlightenment project and its Romantic and Hegelian alternatives. Aristotle Ayer A J Caputo J Derrida J...

...This chapter works with the premise that the reality of human existence is not a given, but rather that we become real by being loved, and in particular, by being loved by God. Westphal discusses various passages from two of Kierkegaard's works written under the pseudonyms Johannes Climacus...

..., and final serenity. Brown John Fuller Margaret Nietzsche Friedrich Beiser Frederick Emerson Ralph Waldo Kierkegaard Søren Socrates Stoicism Plato Jesus Burns Anthony Kant Immanuel Cavell Stanley Shakespeare William Austin J L Forster E M Furtak Rick Anthony Homer Montaigne Michel de...

.... It is essential for understanding the secularization of Kierkegaard, and it provided a crucial forum in which to discuss and shape the future of existentialism. While revealing Jaspers’s and Heidegger’s debt to Kierkegaard, Wahl at the same time worries that any attempt to provide a philosophy of the insights...

... how freedom can only be conceived of by confronting “ontic indifference” with another type of indifference, notably an ontological one. capacity Lenin Vladimir Illyich Marx Karl modern modernity animal Schmid Carl Christian Erhard ideology nature Kierkegaard Soren free will Schopenhauer...

... in Schleiermacher’s view of human beings as “absolutely dependent” on God, a view that is basic to any account of prayer. The Schleiermacherian theme of the passive self is tracked in Kierkegaard’s “upbuilding discourses”, showing how Kierkegaard ultimately embraces a view that requires the annihilation of the self...

... an essential future orientation, as in the prayer “Your Kingdom come.” This eschatological character is not a possible subject for knowledge, but a requirement for just action. Following Kierkegaard, the future is present as the demand of human possibilities of action. Such an existential understanding...

...Theater and theory, as has been established in one of the previous chapters, come from the same Greek word thea which means assigning a place where one chooses to observe or see. Kierkegaard, author of the essay entitled Repetition, proposes that theater should...

... in twentieth-century French thought and writing. It includes chapters on Friedrich Schlegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Jean Paulhan, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, and Paul de Man. A coda traces the way unresolved tensions inherited from romanticism resurface in a novelist like J...

...The following study interprets the figure of Abraham through the philosophical writings of Hegel and Kierkegaard in order to open towards what Derrida calls, in the “Abraham, the Other” lecture delivered in December 2000 at the Judeities. Questions for Jacques Derrida...

...This chapter discusses Merold Westphal's thoughts on the sociopolitical implications of Kierkegaard's philosophy. It presents cases in which Kierkegaard's thoughts on some issues are unacceptable to Westphal, which include political and social equality in Kierkegaard's Works of Love...

... and of the present debate on the category of the Impossible for speaking of God. Tracy notes that there are two predecessors of this debate: Angelus Silesius and Kierkegaard writing under the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio, and that it is Derrida who has most fruitfully reread for people the crucial fragments from...

... and Kierkegaard were chosen as the subjects for an exploration of the ethics of authorship because they invite us to confront particularly challenging questions about this topic. It is argued that each in his own way explores styles of authorship that employ a variety of strategies of seduction in order to entice...

...This chapter sketches out some significant similarities between Hegel and Kierkegaard in terms of their ideas on language and the ethics of communication and authorship. The extent of this shared ground requires us to think skeptically about Kierkegaard's depiction of the difference between his...

... that display the image of Kierkegaard' relation to Hegel allows for a more rewarding dialogue between the two. In the altered image, there is as much telling as living in Kierkegaard as in Hegel, and as much a choice for living in Hegel as in Kierkegaard. Perhaps most important, this reorientation invites us...

...This chapter presents the case for seeing Kierkegaard's authorship as engaged in the project of seduction. It argues that the infamous “Diary of the Seducer” that closes the first volume of Either/Or can be read as a disguised commentary on Kierkegaard's own early experimentation...

...This chapter takes a closer look at Hegel's and Kierkegaard's theories of communication, and shows that both entail conceptions of the therapeutic power of language. It argues that whereas Hegel quite straightforwardly celebrates the emancipator and curative power of language, Kierkegaard is more...