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Either/Or, Part I (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Either/Or, Part I (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Series: International Kierkegaard Commentary
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Kierkegaard's Either/Or can be read in multiple ways. One important
possible reading at the present time is to read it as a critique of
the sexual stereotyping of women (and, implicitly, the stereotyping
of men as well) and gender relations that characterize modern
Western thought. The stereotyping is not simple and unvarigated. To
mention two extremes, Kierkegaard's presentation of gender
relations range from the outrageous subjugation and domination of
woman shown in the "Diary of the Seducer," with which Kierkegaard
closes the first volume of Either/Or, to the affectionate and
gentle love that characterizes the relation of Judge William and
his wife in the second volume, where the best face is put upon
bourgeois marriage. In Either/Or, Part One, Kierkegaard presents
what he calls the aesthetic form of life. There he focuses on a
large variety of the stereotypical views of women, from a
sentimental and whining appraisal of her position in the world,
through the view that sexual exploitation is an uncontrollable
natural instinct and/or drive for which men are not morally
responsible, to the view that women is a jest, not to be taken
seriously as a moral and responsible being, and then that she is
just there as a sexual object or plaything to be reflectively
seduced on the male's terms and for his pleasure or rejection,
whatever suits him at the moment. Needless to say, this great
variety of views of the "uses" of woman has provoked a large
critique, and just as predictable, that critique is as varied as
the intellectual tools available for the analysis of a work that is
as literary as it is philosophic. The present collection of essays
treats these and many other of the most important issues raised in
Either/Or in fresh and perceptive ways. Even where familiar themes
are argued, the authors introduce innovative interpretive models,
new approaches and new materials are appealed to, or new rebuttal
arguments against previously held positions are offered. Several of
the articles, for instance, appropriate or criticize methods or
insights derived from postmodernism and/or feminist philosophy; an
approach that would have been unlikely two decades ago.
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