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Word and spirit : a Kierkegaardian critique of the modern age / Ronald L. Hall. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Ronald L., 1945-
- Series:
- The Indiana series in the philosophy of religion
- The Indiana series in the philosophy of religion Word and spirit
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855--Contributions in philosophy of the self.
- Kierkegaard, Søren.
- Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855--Influence.
- Philosophers, Modern.
- Self (Philosophy).
- Postmodernism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Postmodernism.
- Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
- Civilization, Modern--Philosophy.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Self (Philosophy)--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 218 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By means of a Kierkegaardian critique of postmodernism, Ronald L. Hall argues that the postmodernist flirtation with Kierkegaard ignores the existential import of his thought. Word and Spirit offers a novel interpretation of Kierkegaard's conception of the self, according to which spirit is essentially linked to the speech act. In an extended interpretation of Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Hall uses insights from Austin, Wittgenstein, Polanyi, and Poteat to fill out and explicate Kierkegaard's views in the context of modern language philosophy. The enriched concept of the speech act represented by the Hebrew idea of dahhar frames Hall's critique of irony, romanticism, Don Giovanni, Faust, the demonic, music, and, ultimately, postmodernism in a Kierkegaardian mode. The result of the modern suspicion of speech, Hall concludes, is a demonic, musical spiritlessness.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Kierkegaard's critique of the modern age
- Sensuality and spirit
- Dabhar and existential immediacy
- Don Giovanni, music, and the demonic immediacy of sensuality
- Faust, romantic irony, and the demonic immediacy of spirituality
- Post-modernism and the triumph of the demonic
- Epilogue: Mastered irony and the recovery of spirit.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-585-10987-7
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