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Søren Kierkegaard's religious psychology of melancholy
Part One deals with social and historical aspects of melancholy in relation to the emergence of modernity. It is argued that one way of understanding modernity is in terms of the emergence of a characteristic world view associated with Copernicanism, and that this transformation 'from the closed …
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A fractured dialectic: Søren Kierkegaard between idealism and materialism
… of the philosophical and religious project of Søren Kierkegaard by offering a systematic reading of his work against the backdrop of 19th century German idealism. Along with an emphasis on a systematic interpretation of a thinker usually considered to be wholly anti-systematic in aim and …
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Suffering and the Christian life : the asceticism of Søren Kierkegaard.
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) has been called many things: a Lutheran, a Pietist, a mystic, a poet, and the first existentialist philosopher. While these labels all have some degree of truth, I argue that the best name for Kierkegaard is that of a Christian ascetic. Kierkegaard was committed to a …
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La razón y la paradoja de Søren Kierkegaard, una relación amorosa
Fil: Rufiner, María Sol. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina
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Graceful Nothings: The Art of Beginning in Søren Kierkegaard’s Theological Anthropology
This study is a constructive account of Søren Kierkegaard’s theological anthropology. In it I show that according to Kierkegaard: (1) human being consists in the continual task of becoming; (2) this becoming demands that we continually begin again; and (3) beginning is a kenotic art executed …
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A critical comparison of William James and Søren Kierkegaard on religious belief
… belief proposed by<br/>William James and Søren Kierkegaard. Both James and Kierkegaard greatly emphasize<br/>the subjective aspects of religious belief. In view of this fact, surprisingly little<br/>comparative work has been done in this area. I contribute to this literature in two …
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Ethical decision making in the National Health Service: A theoretical analysis of clinical negligence with reference to the existential writings of Søren Kierkegaard, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Jean Paul Sartre proposed that:<br/><br/>Historical situations vary…What does not vary is the necessity for him to exist in the world, to be at work there, to be there in the midst of other people, and to be mortal there. The limits are neither subjective nor objective, or rather, they have an …
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Space-Time Experience in the Meta-Environment: A Cybersemiotic Analysis
… Roy Ascott’s technoetic art, this thesis deploys Søren Brier’s Cybersemiotic framework to bridge practice and theory. It presents the interactive hybrid installation Mixing Realities (2009, 2014) as contemporary example, analyzing its physical and digital components, aesthetic and conceptual …
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The False Self and True Self: A Christian Perspective
… thinkers: Augustine of Hippo, Martin Luther, Søren Kierkegaard, and Thomas Merton. Chapter 4 examines answers from two modern psychologists, D.W. Winnicott and Susan Harter. The fifth chapter concludes with a synthesis of these answers, in order to propose a Christian perspective on the false …
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Reading <i>Waiting for Godot</i> through the lens of Christian existentialism
… may be saying about the existential dilemma. Søren Kierkegaard, often called the Father of Existentialism, authored multiple works that influenced modern existentialist writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Kierkegaard’s writings, however, were Christian in nature rather than …
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Hearing Existenzspeak: An Existential Response to Millennial Angst
… in the past by thinkers including Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, and Karl Jaspers--I explore this idea so as to illuminate some new ways of thinking about intrapersonal, interpersonal, public, and mythic forms of communication. It is my hope that, ultimately, hearing our own …
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Exploring the Role of the Self in the Islamic-Western Human Rights Discourse: A Comparative Examination of Foundational Texts of Key Scholars from the Shī‘ī-Muslim and Western Philosophical Tradition - ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib, Zayn al-‘Ābidīn, Søren Kierkegaard and Immanuel Kant
… Upbuilding Discourses by the Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard and finally, The Metaphysics of Morals by the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant.<br/>By engaging in a comparative analysis of these texts, I aim to construct a role for the self that is appropriate for the human rights discourse …
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Self Creation and Social Critique: Kierkegaard, Arendt, and Castoriadis on Thinking and Discourse
… Cornelius Castoriadis, Hannah Arendt, and Søren Kierkegaard. I argue that when taken in concert, these three figures present a cogent account of how people ought to cultivate an ethos of critique or resistance, while nonetheless acknowledging that political participation is itself a mode of …
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Un baldado de agua fría : la angustia en el astillero (1961) y respirando el verano (1962)
… concepto de angustia desde los planteamientos de Søren Kierkegaard y Martin Heidegger, quienes desde la orilla de la filosofía iluminan el camino para un entendimiento de esta sensación más allá de una cuestión física. Dentro del texto planteo que parte de esta sensación se debe al hábil uso del …
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The Leap : Existential Storytelling and the Knight's Perspective
… philosophical and rhetorical perspective are Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche and Plato, and, speaking more broadly, existentialism. It will also situate the novel within its sphere of literary influence. Here, key writers are Italo Calvino and, again, Kierkegaard, who will be placed …
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Everyday aesthetic existence and discipleship: exploring the connections between aesthetics, faith and ethics in being human and becoming Christian
… Bonhoeffer’s cryptic call for a recovery of Søren Kierkegaard’s notion of aesthetic existence in being Christian, set against the backdrop of their mutual concern for the captivity of the church to Christendom. In addition to the contribution by Kierkegaard (discipleship as poetic living) and …
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Michael Wyschogrod and Jewish Existentialism
… and tropes drawn especially from the work of Søren Kierkegaard, but also from that of Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. The study examines four major topics in Wyschogrod’s philosophy of Judaism: his indictment of the inauthenticity Modern Orthodox community in the United States; his …
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Kierkegaard And Byron: Disability, Irony, And The Undead
… references to Lord Byron in the corpus of Søren Kierkegaard, chapter 1, "Kierkegaard and Byron," provides a historical backdrop by surveying the influence of Byron and Byronism on the literary circles of Golden Age Copenhagen. Chapter 2, "Disability," theorizes that Kierkegaard later …
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