ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1975
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

55502) Being and Existence in Kierkegaard’s Pseudonymous Works , John W. Elrod , Princeton University Press New Jersy 1975 , In this study John W. Elrod demonstrates that Kierkegaard`s pseudonymous writings have an ontological foundation that unites the disparate elements of these books. The descriptions of the different stages of human development are not fully understandable, the author argues, without an awareness of the role played by this ontology in Kierkegaard`s analysis of human existence.

Kierkegaard contends that the self is a synthesis of finitude and infinitude, body and soul, reality and ideality, necessity and possibility, and time and eternity. Each of these syntheses reveals a particular and unique aspect of individual being not disclosed in the others. Part One shows that ontology is central to the discussion of the self in the pseudonyms. The author notes that spirit, as a synthesis of the expressions of the self, develops as consciousness and freedom. In Part Two he indicates the relationship between notions of being and existence. He notes that existence, in Kierkegaard`s thought, grows out of the life of the spirit; the different stages of existence are concrete modes that develop in the spirit`s striving to unify the self as a synthesis. These existential expressions of spirit are dialectically related, in that each step requires the preceding stages of spiritual development.
Contents :
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: KIERKEGAARD`S ONTOLOGY
CHAPTER 1: METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS
The Systematic Foundation in Kierkegaard`s Thought
Existence: The Domain of Human Being and Thinking
The Existential Thinker and the Problem of Communication

CHAPTER II: THE DIALECTICAL SELF
A Definition
Expressions of the Self as a Synthesis
Finite-Infinite: Concrete
Body-Soul: Spirit
Reality-Ideality: Spirit (as Consciousness)
Necessity-Possibility: Spirit (as Freedom)
Time and the Eternal: The Instant
Summary

CHAPTER III: THE DIALECTICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SPIRIT

Self-Knowledge: The Dialectical Interpenetration of Consciousness and Freedom
Immediacy: The Dormancy of Spirit as Consciousness and Freedom
Movement: The Expansion of Spirit as Consciousness and Freedom
Unity: The Culmination of Spirit as Consciousness and Freedom
PART TWO: THE TASK OF EXISTING
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER IV: THE ETHICAL CHARACTER OF EXISTENCE
Two Definitions of Ethics
The Choice

CHAPTER V: THE RELIGION OF HIDDEN INWARDNESS

Resignation
The God-Relationship
Suffering
Guilt
Repentance
Conclusion

CHAPTER VI: THE RELIGION OF FAITH

Two Determinations of the Eternal
The Propaedeutic of Faith
Sin-Consciousness
The Forgiveness of Sin
Conclusion

CONCLUSION
A Christian Philosophy of Spirit

BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Hard cover, size 14,4 x 22 cm , X +275 pages, first edition