Kierkegaard''s Concept of the Interesting - The Aesthetic Gulf in Either/or I

The Concept of the Interesting portrays the artistic theories and life-view of Søren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous aesthete, known as A--one of the most intelligent and reflective yet deeply misguided characters in the modern literary tradition--ultimately revealing the flaws in his theory of existence and the new directions his aporia makes possible.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Sigla
Overture: The Crisis
Chapter 1: From the Beautiful to the Interesting: The Great Gulf
Chapter 2: Don Giovanni as Proto-Aesthete
Chapter 3: Antigone: The Substantially Interesting
Chapter 4: Shadows of Variation: The Paradox of Reflective Sorrow
Chapter 5: 'The Unhappiest One' as an Interlude: Unhappiness is an Empty Grave
Chapter 6: The Painless Misrelation: A Glimpse at Subjectivity in Pure Form
Chapter 7: Novelty and Control: Doing Justice to Aesthetics
Chapter 8: The Final Division: Voracious Hermeneutics
Coda: A Most Interesting Man
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Anthony Eagan

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Eagan
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2024
• EAN: 9781666962475
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-247-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: New Kierkegaard Research
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy from c 1800, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism