Overview
Søren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony, and the Crisis of Modernity examines the thought of Søren Kierkegaard, a unique figure, who has freeired, provoked, fascinated, and irritated people ever since he walked the streets of Copenhagen. At the end of his life, Kierkegaard said that the only model he had for his work was the Greek philosopher Socrates. This work takes this statement as its point of departure. Jon Stewart explores what Kierkegaard meant by this and to show how different aspects of his writing and argumentative strategy can be traced back to Socrates. The main focus is The Concept of Irony, which is a key text at the beginning of Kierkegaard's literary career. Although it was an early work, it nevertheless played a determining role in his later development and writings. Indeed, it can be said that it laid the groundwork for much of what would appear in his later famous books such as Either/Or and Fear and Trembling.
Full Product Details
Author: Jon Stewart (, Associate Professor, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.90cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.294kg
ISBN: 9780198785224
ISBN 10: 0198785224
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 04 January 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
As the plot of this text unfolds it becomes a play within a play, an occasion for reflection; with clearer vision the reader discovers herself at center stage, having become-one can only hope-an actress in crisis. * Chandler D. Rogers, Religious Studies Review *
Stewart deftly articulates the connections between Kierkegaard and Hegel, leaving the reader with the helpful realization that, although there are substantial disagreements between the two thinkers, Kierkegaard relied upon-and was far more sympathetic to-Hegel than many scholars have often supposed. --Reading Religion
Author Information
Jon Stewart is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He is the editor of the Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Texts from Golden Age Denmark and Danish Golden Age Studies series. He is the co-editor of the Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook and the Kierkegaard Studies Monograph series. His publications include A Companion to Kierkegaard (2015), Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered (2003), The Unity of Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit': A Systematic Interpretation (2011), and The Cultural Crisis of the Danish Golden Age: Heiberg, Martensen and Kierkegaard (2015).
