Autopsia : self, death, and God after Kierkegaard and Derrida / Marius Timmann Mjaaland ; translated from Norwegian by Brian McNeil.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Mjaaland, Marius Timmann.

Series:

Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series ; 17.

Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series, 1434-2952 ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy).

Death.

God.

Kierkegaard, Sren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Sren.

Derrida, Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Dissertation Universität Oslo 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-354) and index.

ISBN:

9786612196461

9781282196469

1282196464

9783110205237

3110205238

OCLC:

476196936