Kierkegaard and Philosophical Eros
Subtitle: Between Ironic Reflection and Aesthetic Meaning
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781350133716
Description: "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"--