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1 online resource (xiii, 218 pages) |
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The Indiana series in the philosophy of religion |
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Indiana series in the philosophy of religion.
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| Contents |
Prologue: Kierkegaard's critique of the modern age -- Sensuality and spirit -- Dabhar and existential immediacy -- Don Giovanni, music, and the demonic immediacy of sensuality -- Faust, romantic irony, and the demonic immediacy of spirituality -- Post-modernism and the triumph of the demonic -- Epilogue: Mastered irony and the recovery of spirit |
| Summary |
By means of a Kierkegaardian critique of postmodernism, Ronald L. Hall argues that the postmodernist flirtation with Kierkegaard ignores the existential import of his thought. Word and Spirit offers a novel interpretation of Kierkegaard's conception of the self, according to which spirit is essentially linked to the speech act. In an extended interpretation of Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Hall uses insights from Austin, Wittgenstein, Polanyi, and Poteat to fill out and explicate Kierkegaard's views in the context of modern language philosophy. The enriched concept of the speech act represented by the Hebrew idea of dahhar frames Hall's critique of irony, romanticism, Don Giovanni, Faust, the demonic, music, and, ultimately, postmodernism in a Kierkegaardian mode. The result of the modern suspicion of speech, Hall concludes, is a demonic, musical spiritlessness |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 -- Contributions in philosophy of the self
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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 -- Influence
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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 fast |
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Kierkegaard, Søren. swd |
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Philosophers, Modern.
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Self (Philosophy)
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Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Philosophers, Modern
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Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Self (Philosophy)
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Moderne
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Postmoderne
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Zelf.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585109877 |
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9780585109879 |
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