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Becoming a Self - Reading of Kierkegaard's ""Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Paperback, New)
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Becoming a Self - Reading of Kierkegaard's ""Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Paperback, New)
Series: History of Philosophy
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Soren Kierkegaard (1818-55) is perhaps best known for his
existentialism, and his critique of the Western metaphysical
tradition makes him a religiously committed postmodernist. Becoming
a Self provides a reader's guide to the book often taken to be
Kierkegaard's most important contribution to philosophy and
theology. Merold Westphal includes the portion of Kierkegaard's
text that develops his infamous thesis that "truth is
subjectivity," and offers a dose reading of the entire text of
Postscript. In addition, he locates the text in the larger
authorship of Kierkegaard, with special attention to the theory of
stages or existence spheres; in the debate with Hegel, which is one
of its most distinctive features; and in the conversations that
make up contemporary postmodern philosophy. While postmodernism is
usually thought to be inherently secular, Kierkegaard's pseudonym,
Johannes Climacus, shows us what a variety of postmodern insights
might took like if appropriated by religious thought. He tries to
show that the demise of classical paradigms of selfhood do not
require the abandonment of subjectivity and inwardness altogether,
and that a decentered self can still be a responsible self This
volume continues Westphal's attempt to show that the
"individualism" and "irrationalism" that have for so long been
associated with Kierkegaard's thought are not the abandonment of
community and thoughtfulness but powerful protests against major
pathologies of complacent modernity. In this light, Kierkegaard's
thought can be seen as a non-Marxist form of ideology critique.
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