Kierkegaard's mirrors
Subtitle: interest, self, and moral vision
By: Patrick Stokes.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780230240001
Subjects: Kierkegaard, Søren, -- 1813-1855; Ethics; Self (Philosophy); Interest (Philosophy)
Description: "Kierkegaard's Mirrors explores Kierkegaard's unique and challenging answers to these questions. Beginning with the structural account of consciousness offered in Johannes Climacus, this book develops a new phenomenological interpretation of what Kierkegaard calls 'interest': a self-reflexive mode of thought, vision, and imagination that plays a central role in moral experience. Tracing this concept across Kierkegaard's work takes us through topics such as consciousness, the ontology of selfhood, ethical imagination, admiration and imitation, seeing the other, metaphors of self-recognition and mirroring, our need for transcendent meaning, and the relationship between scholarship and subjective knowledge."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.