Kierkegaard's Concept of the Interesting

The Aesthetic Gulf in Either/Or I

Anthony Eagan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-6247-5 (ISBN)

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Volume one of Søren Kierkegaard’s Either/Or explores the crisis of the modern secular void—with its attendant doubt, ennui, and alienation—from the first-person perspective of an aesthete who, lacking any epistemic or moral foundations, grows increasingly obsessed with what he calls “the interesting.” In a close explication of the history of that aesthetic concept and a thorough exegesis of this volume, Kierkegaard’s Concept of the Interesting: The Aesthetic Gulf Voracious Hermeneutics in Either/Or I explores the aesthete’s views on beauty, opera and music, tragedy and comedy, time, unhappiness, the difference between suffering and pain, boredom, eroticism, deception, and seduction, along with the ways in which these precipitate the ambition for increasingly interesting experiences. In this examination, Anthony Eagan thoroughly reveals Kierkegaard’s own perspective on how an exclusively aesthetic attitude can lead to an ever-more voracious tendency to interpret the world in a private, self-defeating, and unscrupulous fashion—one arising from and ultimately leading to moral solipsism and despair. This book develops a comprehensive understanding of Either/Or I that is crucial for understanding the rest of Kierkegaard’s authorship.

Anthony Eagan is research fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.

Acknowledgments

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Overture: The Crisis

Chapter 1: From the Beautiful to the Interesting: The Great Gulf

Chapter 2: Don Giovanni as Proto-Aesthete

Chapter 3: Antigone: The Substantially Interesting

Chapter 4: Shadows of Variation: The Paradox of Reflective Sorrow

Chapter 5: ‘The Unhappiest One’ as an Interlude: Unhappiness is an Empty Grave

Chapter 6: The Painless Misrelation: A Glimpse at Subjectivity in Pure Form

Chapter 7: Novelty and Control: Doing Justice to Aesthetics

Chapter 8: The Final Division: Voracious Hermeneutics

Coda: A Most Interesting Man

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Erscheinungsdatum	27.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	New Kierkegaard Research
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 238 mm
Gewicht	535 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-6669-6247-3 / 1666962473
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-6247-5 / 9781666962475
Zustand	Neuware