The Phenomenology of Moods in Kierkegaard

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction ...1 I. Irony ...7 A. Irony and the concept in the concept of irony ...9 Preliminary considerations ...9 The ironic consciousness ...17 Negative aspects of irony ...22 Mastered irony ...27 The essence of irony as an existence stance ...29 B. Irony as a measurement and tool in the analysis of the aesthetic life view ...30 II. Anxiety ...33 A. Anxiety in the concept of anxiet ..36 Style and format ..36 Theory and history of spirit ...38 Types of, and stances in relation to anxiety ...40 B. The concept of anxiety in Kierkegaard`s other writings ...47 c. The idea of anxiety : The experience and structure of anxiety ...48 D. Attitude toward anxiety ...50 E. Anxiety and the aesthetic life view ...52 III. Melancholy ...53 A. The term melancholy ...54 B. Melancholy in either /or ...56 As reflected in the structure of part 1 ...56 As described in part I ...60 judge william`s analysis (part II) ...66 c. Melancholy in repetition and stages ...72 D. Towards a concept of melancholy ...78 IV. Despair ...82 A. Preliminary considerations ...84 B. Despair in either/or ...86 C. Despair in the sickness unto death ...88 Relation between anxiety and despair ...89 The definition of the self ...90 The four forms of disequilibrium ....91 Unconscious despair : The commonest form ...96 Conscious despair :The principal forms ...96 D. The Idea of despair ...100 State and structure ..100 Experience and act ...101 E. Despair and the aesthetic life view ...103 V. The moods and subjectivity of the young aesthete johannes ...106 A. Johannes irony ...108 Seaking the ideal ...109 Negative and positive irony ...110 The stance of johannes ...110 B. His anxiety ...111 Johannes essential anxiety ...111 His stance in anxiety ..112 C. His melancholy ...113 Johannes awareness ...113 Johannes tungsind ..114 Need for resolution ...114 D. His despair ...116 Johannes disequilibrium ...116 His stance : Conscious despair ..117 E. Dialetic of moods in johannes ...117 VI. The dialetic of moods ...120 A. Defining mood ...122 The four moods of the self ...125 B. The crises sequence ...127 C. Interrelationships ...131 D. Function of Moods in emerging religious subjectivity ...132 E. Moods and life views ...133 VII. From victim to master of Moods : towards the christian life view ...135 A. Preliminary considerations ...136 The term life view ...136 Biographical prelude ...137 Philosophy ...138 B. life view in from the papers of one still living ...140 Background ...140 Theory of literature ...141 Forming a life view ...144 C. Life view in the book on adier ...146 D. life view in either /or stages and the postscript ...148 E. Life view in the papirer ...152 F. The meaning of life view ...155 G. The aesthetic life view exposed ...157