Kierkegaard's Concept of the Interesting
The Aesthetic Gulf in Either/Or I
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2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-6247-5 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-6247-5 (ISBN)
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
Sigla
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
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.07.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Kierkegaard Research |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 535 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-6247-3 / 1666962473 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-6247-5 / 9781666962475 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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