Kierkegaard, Eve and metaphors of birth / Alison Assiter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Assiter, Alison, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854.

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, [New York] : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There has been a recent revival of interest in reading Kierkegaard as an ontologist, as a thinker who engages with questions about the kinds of entity or process that constitute ultimate reality. This new way of reading Kierkegaard stands alongside a revival of interest in ontology and metaphysics more generally. This highly original book concentrates on the claim that Kierkegaard focuses in part on ontological questions and on issues pertaining to the nature of being as a whole. Alison Assiter asserts that Being, for Kierkegaard, following Schelling, can be read in terms of conceptions of bir

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Contingent and Chaotic Reality""; ""2 A Challenge to Chaos""; ""3 Kant, Freedom and Evil""; ""4 Kierkegaard and Schelling on Process""; ""5 The Concept of Anxiety and Kant""; ""6 Kierkegaard on Women""; ""7 Metaphors of Birth in Kierkegaard""; ""8 More on Birthing""; ""9 Nature as a Body That Can Birth""; ""10 The Age of Revolution and the Present Age""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Assiter, Alison. Kierkegaard, Eve and metaphors of birth.

ISBN:

1-78348-325-3

OCLC:

909773682