By Jon Stewart
ISBN-10: 1409426416
ISBN-13: 9781409426417
There may be without doubt that the majority of the thinkers who're often linked to the existentialist culture, no matter what their genuine doctrines, have been in a single manner or one other prompted via the writings of Kierkegaard. This effect is so nice that it may be really said that the existentialist stream used to be principally accountable for the most important boost in Kierkegaard's overseas reception that came about within the 20th century. In Kierkegaard's writings you will discover a wealthy array of strategies reminiscent of nervousness, melancholy, freedom, sin, the gang, and ailment that each one got here to be regular motifs in existentialist literature. Sartre performed an enormous function in canonizing Kierkegaard as one of many forerunners of existentialism. besides the fact that, contemporary scholarship has been responsive to his ideological use of Kierkegaard. certainly, Sartre exploiting Kierkegaard for his personal reasons and suspicions of misrepresentation and distortions have led contemporary commentators to return and reexamine the advanced relation among Kierkegaard and the existentialist thinkers. The articles within the current quantity function figures from the French, German, Spanish and Russian traditions of existentialism. They study the wealthy and sundry use of Kierkegaard by way of those later thinkers, and, most significantly, they seriously research his purported position during this well-known highbrow circulation.
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61. 46 beauvoir, L’Invitée, p. 8. (She Came to Stay, p. ) 47 beauvoir expresses similar discomfort with Hegel and an appreciation of Kierkegaard in her Journal de guerre, see p. 361 (Wartime Diary, p. 319). 48 beauvoir, La force de l’âge, p. 537. (The Prime of Life p. ) 12 Ronald M. Green and Mary Jean Green me to trust my wishes and desires, and from all the doctrines which contributed to my intellectual development i selected those which served to strengthen this disposition in me. 49 Kierkegaard’s understanding of human nature as a “psychical-physical synthesis,” as spelled out in The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness unto Death is captured on the opening page of The Ethics of Ambiguity, her key philosophical essay from this period: “rational animal,” “thinking reed,” he escapes from his natural condition without, however, freeing himself from it.
Beauvoir, Le deuxième sexe, vol. 2, p. 214. (The Second Sex, p. ) beauvoir, Le deuxième sexe, vol. 2, p. 13. (The Second Sex, p. ) 18 Ronald M. ”75 the references to both Kierkegaard and sartre provide important philosophical validation for the definition of woman’s contemporary situation that beauvoir is about to provide in her concluding volume of the study, and their words seem to resonate with each other. Here, as in earlier references, the statement is attributed directly to Kierkegaard, although in the fiction it is uttered by Victor eremita.
How does one make moral choices without a set of universal moral absolutes? ”45 Here, we proceed thematically to further develop the ways in which beauvoir’s answers to these questions may have drawn on Kierkegaard’s writings. A. Going Beyond Hegel at the same time in 1939–40 as she was exploring Kierkegaard, beauvoir was also immersed in reading Hegel, particularly the Phenomenology of Spirit. like sartre, she was greatly influenced by Hegel’s idea that the self needs to confront the other to define itself as a subject, such that the category of otherness is necessary for the constitution of the self as a self.
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