Deakin University
Browse

File(s) under permanent embargo

Kierkegaard’s dual individual: reconciling selfhood in the existentialist and analytic traditions

chapter
posted on 2017-04-01, 00:00 authored by Patrick StokesPatrick Stokes
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.

History

Title of book

Kierkegaard's existential approach

Series

Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series 35

Chapter number

13

Pagination

261 - 280

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Place of publication

Berlin, Germany

ISBN-13

9783110478662

ISBN-10

3110478668

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2017, Walter de Gruyter

Extent

13

Editor/Contributor(s)

A Grøn, R Rosfort, K Söderquist

Usage metrics

    Research Publications

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC