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Overview

In Either/Or, Part One, Kierkegaard presents what he calls the aesthetic form of life. There he focuses on a large variety of the stereotypical views of women, from a sentimental and whining appraisal of her position in the world, through the view that sexual exploitation is an uncontrollable natural instinct and/or drive for which men are not morally responsible, to the view that woman is a jest, not to be taken seriously as a moral and responsible being, and then that she is just there as a sexual object or plaything to be reflectively seduced on the male's terms and for his pleasure or rejection, whatever suits him at the moment. Needless to say, this great variety of views of the "uses" of woman has provoked a large critique, and just as predictably, that critique is as varied as the intellectual tools available for the analysis of a work that is as literary as it is philosophic. The present collection of essays treats these and many other of the most important issues raised in Either/Or in fresh and perceptive ways. Even where familiar themes are argued, the authors introduce innovative interpretive models, new approaches and new materials are appealed to, or new rebuttal arguments against previously held positions are offered. Several of the articles, for instance, appropriate or criticize methods or insights derived from postmodernism and/or feminist philosophy, an approach that would have been unlikely two decades ago.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780865544703
  • Publisher: Mercer University Press
  • Publication date: 4/28/1995
  • Series: International Kierkegaard Commentary Series
  • Edition description: REVISED
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 294
  • Product dimensions: 6.36 (w) x 9.31 (h) x 0.87 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Sigla
Introduction 1
1 Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Part One: Patterns of Interpretation 5
2 Narcissism and Desire in Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Part One 51
3 An Unsung Appreciation of the "Musical-Erotic" in Mozart's Don Giovanni: Hermann Cohen's Nod toward Kierkegaard's Either/Or 73
4 The Unhappiest One and the Structure of Kierkegaard's Either/Or 91
5 Fairy Tale Themes in the Papers of A in Kierkegaard's Either/Or 109
6 Tragedy in the Context of Kierkegaard's Either/Or 125
7 The Validity of A's View of Tragedy with Particular Reference to Ibsen's Brand 143
8 Seven Seducers: A Typology of Interpretations of the Aesthetic Stage in Kierkegaard's "The Seducer's Diary" 159
9 The Heterosexual Imagination and Aesthetic Existence in Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Part One 201
10 The No Woman's Land of Kierkegaardian Seduction 229
11 The Ties That Bind: The Limits of Aesthetic Reflection in Kierkegaard's Either/Or 251
12 Spirit and Presence: A Kierkegaardian Analysis 271
Notes on Contributors 287
International Kierkegaard Commentary Advisory Board 288
Index 289
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Introduction

Kierkegaard's Either/Or can be read in multiple ways. One important possible reading at the present time is to be read it as a critique of the sexual stereotyping of women (and, implicitly, the stereotyping of men as well) and gender relations that characterize modern Western thought. The stereotyping is not simple and unvarigated. To mention two extremes, Kierkegaard's presentation of gender relations range from the outrageous subjugation and domination of woman shown in the Diary of the Seducer, with which Kierkegaard closes the first volume of Either/Or, to the affectionate and gentle love that characterizes the relation of Judge William and his wife in the second volume, where the best face is put upon bourgeois marriage.

In Either/Or, Part One, Kierkegaard presents what he calls the aesthetic form of life. There he focuses on a large variety of the stereotypical views of women, from a sentimental and whining appraisal of her position in the world, through the view that sexual exploitation is an uncontrollable natural instinct and/or drive for which men are not morally responsible, to the view that woman is a jest, not to be taken seriously as a moral and responsible being, and then that she is just there as a sexual object or plaything to be reflectively seduced on the male's terms and for his pleasure or rejection, whatever suits him at the moment. Needless to say, this great variety of views of the "uses" of woman has provoked a large critique, and just as predictably, that critique is as varied as the intellectual tools available for the analysis of a work that is as literary as it is philosophic.

The present collection of essays treats these and many other of the most important issues raise in Either/Or in fresh and perceptive ways. Even where familiar themes are argued, the authors introduce innovative interprtive models, new approaches and new materials are appealed to, or new rebuttal arguments against previously held positions are offered. Several of the articles, for instance, appropiate or criticize methods or insights derived from postmodernism and/or feminist philosophy, an approach tha would have been unlikely two decades ago.

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