Recognition, Self-Recognition, and God: An Interpretation of The Sickness unto Death as an Existential Theory of Self-Recognition
In this paper, I reconstruct the understanding of selfhood in The Sickness unto Death. Using Leo Tolstoy's character Ivan Ilyich, I argue that one can become alienated from oneself, although one is completely socially recognized. I critically engage this reconstruction with the theories of soci...
| Nebentitel: | Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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De Gruyter
[2018]
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Kierkegaard studies / Yearbook
Jahr: 2018, Band: 23, Heft: 1, Seiten: 125-154 |
| RelBib Classification: | KAH Kirchengeschichte 1648-1913; Neuzeit KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit NBE Anthropologie VA Philosophie |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In this paper, I reconstruct the understanding of selfhood in The Sickness unto Death. Using Leo Tolstoy's character Ivan Ilyich, I argue that one can become alienated from oneself, although one is completely socially recognized. I critically engage this reconstruction with the theories of social agency of Axel Honneth and Robert Pippin and the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre. In the end, Anti-Climacus offers a notion of self-relating selfhood, which keeps a balance between the radical self-construction of Sartre and the theories of social dependency of Honneth and Pippin by understanding "God" as the necessity of having irreducibly personal reasons for becoming oneself. |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9792 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Kierkegaard studies / Yearbook
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/kierke-2018-0007 |