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Konturen: Recent submissions
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(University of Oregon, 2015)Both Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche maintained an abiding concern for Socrates throughout their productive lives. Kierkegaard wrote his dissertation on irony through a Socratic lens and Nietzsche once declared ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015)By examining Martin Heidegger's critique of Søren Kierkegaard, this essay reconsiders the limits that an ontotheology of the subject may or may not impose on investigations of the relations between being and time. I begin ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015)In their philosophical work Ludwig Wittgenstein and Søren Kierkegaard both reflect on suicide as a response to existential despair. While Anti-Climacus, the pseudonymous author of The Sickness unto Death, rejects the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015)Kierkegaard's own fondness for prefaces introduces our volume.
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(University of Oregon, 2015)“The Concept of Byrony” examines Kierkegaard’s lyrical relation to Lord Byron. As an alternative to models of German influence, this paper discusses Kierkegaard’s quotations of Byron’s poetry and allusions to the poet ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015)The German mystics were particularly important for Kierkegaard because of the proximity of Germany to Denmark and because of their influence on both German idealism and the Pietist tradition in which Kierkegaard was raised. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015)This article is a reading of Kierkegaard's 1847 discourses on "The lilies of the field and the birds of the air." In these discourses, I argue, Kierkegaard pursues the problem of the being of the human being—that is, engages ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015)This is a sequel to an earlier paper ('Kierkegaard's Ethicist' Archiv 2006) in which I argued that J. G. Fichte (rather than Kant of Hegel or some amalgam) was the primary historical model for the ethical standpoint described ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015)Kierkegaard’s essay “The Tragic in Ancient Drama Reflected in the Tragic in Modern Drama,” makes two basic claims of far-reaching consequences for the theory of the tragedy and for philosophy more generally. The first is ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015)My aim in this essay is to pair Kierkegaard with the German-born philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). I am particularly concerned to juxtapose their complementary investigations in the etiology and operation of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)My aim in this essay is to explore certain parallels—concerning anthropomorphism—in the work of Roger Caillois, Hans Jonas, Theodor Adorno and Sigmund Freud. Both Caillois (a thinker closely connected to French Surrealism ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)In their pathbreaking discussions of the human family tree in the 1860s and 1870s, Ernst Haeckel and Charles Darwin had to account for both the ascent of the species and its diversification into races. But what was the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)Within the context of an inquiry into the borders between human and animal, this essay considers the question of the humanity - or animality - of children as they are depicted in nineteenth-century German literature and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)Texts of the early Twentieth Century link animalism, gender struggles, and issues of identity in their stark critique of bourgeois gender ideology. This essay places selected texts by Bertolt Brecht and Frank Wedekind in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf (1927) can be regarded as a post-humanist novel for several reasons. It is post-humanist in a temporal sense because it engages with the nineteenth-century humanist legacy from a twentieth-century ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)
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(University of Oregon, 2014)Phenomenology’s attention to the theme of animality has focused not on animal life in general but rather on the animal dimension of the human and its contested relation with humanity as such. Phenomenology thereby reproduces ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)In order to respond to the problem addressed by this volume, I must reformulate its title, “Defining the Human and Animal”, by replacing the conjunctive 'and' with 'as'. Because this essay is based on the not too far-fetched ...
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