The original age of anxiety : : essays on Kierkegaard and his contemporaries / / Lasse Horne Kjældgaard.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 370
• VerfasserIn: Kjældgaard, Lasse Horne,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 370.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Why was anxiety such a major issue for Søren Kierkegaard and his contemporaries? This book revisits the "original" age of anxiety, the time and place where Kierkegaard's ground-breaking thoughts on anxiety were formed. The pseudonym used by Kierkegaard in The Concept of Anxiety (1844)...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• 1   Introduction  The Dizziness of Freedom
• 1 There is Nothing to Be Afraid of
• 2 The Ascendance of Anxiety
• 3 The Golden Age
• 4 Departures
• 5 The Annihilation of Eternity
• 2   The Political Turn of the Public Sphere
• 1 Young Denmark?
• 2 The Critique of Aestheticization
• 2.1  The State of Art
• 3 Politics versus Aesthetics
• 4 The Politicization of the Press
• 5 The Directions and Distractions of the Age
• 6 The Resurgence of Poetry
• 7 A New Waker
• 8 An Artist among Rebels?
• 3   The Poetics of Paralysis  The Pregnant Moment of Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
• 1 The Limits of Painting and Poetry
• 2 The Pregnant Moment of Medea
• 3 Romeo and Juliet and the End of Narrative Desire
• 4 Going Further or Remaining Standing
• 5 Abraham's Tableau and the State of Indecision
• 6 Ethics and the Question of What Could Have Happened
• 7 Fear and Pity and Trembling
• 4   Paratextualism in Kierkegaard's  Prefaces and Contemporary Literary Culture
• 1 Hegelian Reflections
• 2 Promises and Performances
• 3 Paratextualism
• 4 Simulated Motions
• 5   The Immortality of the Soul and the Death (and Resurrection) of Art in the  Concluding Unscientific Postscript
• 1 The Immortality of the Soul and the Death of Art
• 2 Art as an Anticipation of the Afterlife
• 3 The Most Pathos-filled Issue of All
• 6   The Emancipation of Images  The Optical Unconscious of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Shadow"
• 1 The Scholar and the Shadow
• 2 Perversions
• 3 The Semiotics of the Shadow
• 4 Phantasmagoria
• 5 The Emancipation of Images
• 6 The Semantics of Image and Self
• 7   Epilogue  The Modernity of the Late Golden Age
• Bibliography
• Index.