Kierkegaard and Philosophical Eros: Between Ironic Reflection and Aesthetic Meaning

By:

Carlsson, Ulrika

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Bloomsbury Academic 2021Description: 179pISBN:

9781350133716

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Kierkegaard and philosophical erosDDC classification:

N81.1KS 23 C197

Summary: "In an original argument, Ulrika Carlsson grasps hold of the figure of Eros that haunts Søren Kierkegaard's The Concept of Irony, and for the first time, uses it as a key to interpret both that text and the philosopher's second book, Either/Or. In an illuminating analysis, Carlsson argues that Kierkegaard adopts Plato's idea of Eros as the fundamental force that drives humans in all their pursuits and that, for him, every existential stance-every way of living and relating to the outside world-is at heart a way of loving"--

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In an original argument, Ulrika Carlsson grasps hold of the figure of Eros that haunts Søren Kierkegaard's The Concept of Irony, and for the first time, uses it as a key to interpret both that text and the philosopher's second book, Either/Or. In an illuminating analysis, Carlsson argues that Kierkegaard adopts Plato's idea of Eros as the fundamental force that drives humans in all their pursuits and that, for him, every existential stance-every way of living and relating to the outside world-is at heart a way of loving"--

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