... the ethical ramifications of Highsmith’s work within a mid-century existentialism that also influenced Highsmith’s ethically minded novelist peers, Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch, both of whose work likewise tends (in quite disparate fashion) toward allegorized moral tales. Søren Kierkegaard is a key figure...

... imagination vis-à-vis Kierkegaard’s ideas about ethico-religiousness, the relationship between Atwood’s post-Christian speculation and Christianity will be re-estimated. Starting with a comparative overview of the two writers’ situatedness in their own “post-Christian” milieu, the discussion then focuses...

... with Kierkegaard the existentialist philosopher through the prism of the state of nature. It compares Kierkegaard's account of the emergence of ethical norms from the aesthetic stage of life with Hobbes's account of the emergence of legal norms from the state of nature. The paper argues that the transition from...

... node within Berryman’s theological conceptions of selfhood in relation to God and the role of prayer. In addition, this article connects Berryman's late work to theological frameworks beyond Christianity, principally to the work of Søren Kierkegaard as well as to aspects of Jewish faith, both of which...

..., Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract This article addresses Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, claiming that a strand of theological approaches to its artful exposition overestimates...

... and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/about_us/legal/notices ) Abstract Søren Kierkegaard’s writings influenced several American novelists of the 1950s, including (despite the dearth of critical literature...

... by Kierkegaard and recovered by the philosopher Jonathan Lear. Irony exposes—often painfully—a gap between our present social practices and the ideal toward which those practices aim. Used well, irony would allow physicians to detach from the way medicine is currently practiced while stirring them to enact new...

... that the medicine we practice today, at its best, is not medicine at all. If so, such discontent may be a dysfunctional form of irony—not irony as the term is generally used today, but irony as the concept is used by Kierkegaard and recovered by the philosopher Jonathan Lear. In this essay, I describe Lear’s...

... rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2011 Abstract Because of the radically incarnational nature of the Christian understanding of ethics and bioethics, according to Kierkegaard, there has always been an infinite gulf between Christian bioethics and secular...

... (the Romantics). It locates Kierkegaard's writings within these rhetorical contexts and cultural subtexts, both past and present, that bespeak the happiness of sin. The chapter also gives a thick description of the Easter vigil's mention of felix culpa, arguing that it provides the deep...

...This chapter closely analyzes Practice in Christianity (by Kierkegaard's pseudonym Anti-Climacus) to show how Christ comprises good news to sinners only by incarnating the very possibility of offense. After glimpsing the inherent goodness of human fragility (as traced in Chapter 2...

...This chapter argues that Kierkegaard's hamartiology (understanding of sin) is wholly compatible with postmodern appropriations of his work. More widely, it argues that, at best, Christian language of sin is not modern, moralistic, or “logocentric” (Derrida) but rather serves to destabilize...

...This chapter explores the impact of Hegel's work in relation to three influential successors — Feuerbach, Marx, and Kierkegaard — who accept much of his general story of the stages of the history of philosophy but believe, for different reasons, that it has an all too idealistic shape. Feuerbach...

...Across a number of texts, Kierkegaard speaks of believers in Christianity as attaining a form of ‘contemporaneity’ (samtidighed) with events depicted in scripture, a contemporaneity that cancels out the difference between historical witnesses of those events and those living...

...A major strand of personal identity theory has moved away from the metaphysical question of re-identification across time and towards a practical approach to personal identity. This movement has also included a ‘narrative turn’ that has also been echoed in Kierkegaard Studies. The narrative...

... the way for, but does not involve, a conception of other minds. degree of self representation interpersonal self consciousness self consciousness Evans G first person Rödl S Dolphins Gallup G Hegel G Kant I Kierkegaard S Marino L mirror test Obama B Reiss D Sartre J P Strawson P Swarns R...

...This chapter examines the kenotic motifs present in Philosophical Fragments. Kierkegaard's analogy of the king who conceals his royal status in order not to overwhelm the peasant girl he loves resembles kenotic Christologies which emphasize the limitations Christ took upon himself...

...Though Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous authorship poses interpretive challenges, its ironical and humorous literary character does not make it impossible to develop from it an ethical theory. Readers of Kierkegaard must be wary of fashionable attempts to make Kierkegaard ‘postmodern’. They should avoid...

... ethics divine commands duty eudaimonism happiness love neighbour the neighbour love ‘other‐I’ self‐denial virtue s erotic love friendship self‐actualization asceticism good the Kierkegaard Søren rewards God gratitude identity poverty relation s suffering Jesus Christ New...

...When Kierkegaard tells us that we must not make ‘distinctions’ in our love, he does not mean that neighbour-love cannot coexist with such natural loves as romantic love and friendship. On the contrary: Kierkegaard believes that neighbour-love teaches us how to love the friend and the beloved as we...