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Kierkegaard’s dual individual: reconciling selfhood in the existentialist and analytic traditions
Kierkegaard and later existentialists were centrally concerned with the irreducibility of the first person perspective. Kierkegaard sought to defend this perspective from the objectivizing tendencies of Idealism, while philosophy today, with its near-universal commitment to some form of naturalism, likewise struggles to accommodate, or simply dismisses, subjective properties. We find ourselves caught between an understanding of persons as a type of object, and existentialist analyses of the self as a subject structurally incapable of coinciding with itself. We thus need, to use a phrase from Sellars, a form of “stereoscopic” vision-for which Kierkegaard’s account of selfhood provides important resources.
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Title of book
Kierkegaard's existential approachSeries
Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series 35Chapter number
13Pagination
261 - 280Publisher
Walter de GruyterPlace of publication
Berlin, GermanyPublisher DOI
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9783110478662ISBN-10
3110478668Language
engPublication classification
B1 Book chapterCopyright notice
2017, Walter de GruyterExtent
13Editor/Contributor(s)
A Grøn, R Rosfort, K SöderquistUsage metrics
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