Anthropology and authority : : essays on Søren Kierkegaard / / eited by Poul Houe, Gordon D. Marino and Sven Hakon Rossel.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 44
• TeilnehmendeR: Houe, Poul,; Marino, Gordon Daniel, 1952-; Rossel, Sven Hakon,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Editions Rodopi B.V.,, [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 44.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (199 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume on anthropology and authority in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) offers its reader nineteen timely discussions of two fundamental categories pertaining to the literary, philosophical, and theological production of this prominent 19th century Danish thinker, whose vast influence upon 20th century intellectual life continues to grow as the new millennium approaches. The volume's nineteen contributors - from Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Italy, and the United States - inquire into such complex problematics in Kierkegaard's oeuvre as the interrelationship between the human, the divine, and the spiritual; between the secular and the Christian; between human and Christian love; between state and church institutions and the single individual of faith; and between this individual's concern for quality in civic and religious life and the quantitative forces of modern society's masses and crowds. Special attention is given to the indisputable authority of God, Christ, and the apostles as opposed to the debatable authority, or non-authority, of the author. Of particular interest is the nexus between Kierkegaard's existential and religious concerns, on the one hand, and his intricate textual conceptions, multifarious poetic strategies, and various means of pseudonymous and indirect communication, on the other. Between the covers of Anthropology and Authority some chapters seek to refine received knowledge of Kierkegaard in such disciplines as theology and moral philosophy. Conversely, other chapters submit rather postmodern critiques of the author's stylistic and rhetorical devices. A summary assessment of the nineteen contributions would fail to recognize this considerable methodological and theoretical diversity. Instead, the reader's access to the smorgasbord of insights has been facilitated by an introduction in which one of the American editors briefly outline the individual contributions on a general historical and intellectual background. Altogether, the probing insights of Anthropology and Authority go to the core of Søren Kierkegaard's authorship. Individual chapters either update previous responses to the many challenges presented by this work, or the chapters face new challenges and/or present critical challenges on their own.

Table of Contents

Preface. Poul HOUE: Introduction. ANTHROPOLOGY. Arthur A. KRENTZ: The Socratic-Dialectical Anthropology of Søren Kierkegaard's Postscript . Arne GRØN: The Human Synthesis. Arnold B. COME: The Implications of Søren Kierkegaard's View of Sexuality and Gender for an Appraisal of Homosexuality. Pia SØLTOFT: Anthropology and Ethics: The Connection between Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity as the Basis of a Kierkegaardian Anthropology. M. Jamie FERREIRA: Impotent Mercifulness in Works of Love . Vanessa RUMBLE: Søren Kierkegaard and the Uncanny: The Endangered Moral Agent. Udo DOEDENS: The Notion of "Simplicity" and the Word Eenfold : A Central Idea in Søren Kierkegaard's Authorship. ANTHROPOLOGY AND AUTHORITY. Ettore ROCCA: Søren Kierkegaard and Silence. Mark LLOYD TAYLOR: Practice in Authority: The Apostolic Women of Søren Kierkegaard' Writings. Michael PLEKON: Søren Kierkegaard at the End: Authority in the Attack on the Church. John LIPPITT: On Authority and Revocation: Climacus as Humorist. Anthony John RUDD: On Straight and Crooked Readings: Why the Postscript Does Not Self-Destruct. Bruce H. KIRMMSE: "I Am Not a Christian" - A "Sublime Lie"? Or: "Without Authority," Playing Desdemona to Christendom's Othello. Robert L. PERKINS: The Authoritarian Symbiosis of Church and Crown in Søren Kierkegaard's "Attack upon Christendom". András NAGY: Søren Kierkegaard's Concept of the Authority of the People: Can Democracy Be Excused Before God? Alastair MCKINNON: Authority in Søren Kierkegaard's Journals: The Main Changes. Della Rae ZURICK: The Artificial Søren Kierkegaard: A Question of Authorial Authority. Jacob BØGGILD: H.H. - Poet or Martyr? Geoffrey A. HALE: "Fragmentary Prodigality": Søren Kierkegaard, Language and Authority. Index.