Autopsia : : Self, Death, and God after Kierkegaard and Derrida / / Marius Timmann Mjaaland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Mjaaland, Marius Timmann,
• MitwirkendeR: McNeil, Brian,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series , 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; I. Prolegomena: Discourse on Method --; II. Secrets of the Self: Derrida on Madness, Death, --; and God --; III. Seven Perspectives on Death --; IV. Alterity and Autopsia --; V. Dialectics of Darkness --; VI. The Thanatology of the Spirit --; VII. Hidden Ground: Holy Ground --; In the Final Analysis --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110205237; 9783110238570; 9783110238488; 9783110636949; 9783110212129; 9783110212136; 9783110209280
• ISSN: 1434-2952
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110205237
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marius Timmann Mjaaland.

There are certain things that can be explained and certain things that cannot be explained. This book is about the latter. It is a book about death: how death interrupts and influences the reflection on the self. It is a book about God: a detailed and critical discussion on how Kierkegaard and Derrida apply the concept of God in their philosophical reflections. The most ground-breaking analysis concerns the famous passage on the self (A.A) in The Sickness unto Death, where the author combines logical, rhetorical and dialectical means to establish a new perspective on Kierkegaard’s thinking in general. The Cartesian doubt then constitutes a common trait for his detailed and rigorous analysis of Derrida and Kierkegaard on death, madness, faith, and rationality – showing how they both seek to break up the Hegelian Aufhebung from within, but still remain dependent on Hegel.After Kierkegaard and Derrida, the certainty and total uncertainty of death – and of God as infinite other – gives the self a basic, though non-foundational, responsibility. The significance of this responsibility, of this other, of this death, requires sustained and thorough consideration. Where others mark a conclusion, this book therefore marks a point of departure: reflecting on oneself at the graveside of a dead man – thus introducing an Autopsia.