Karen Blixen's Existentialism : Where I Ought to Be / Lars Kaaber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaaber, Lars, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Danish--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Danish.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

This book investigates the writings of Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) from an existentialist angle. Although it has not been subject to much study, Blixen's writing elegantly and subtly integrates the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre in a way that makes the philosophers more accessible to a wider audience. However, Blixen also offers her own ideas of the fundamental problem in existentialism: how to arrive at an authentic identity through free, individual choices - or, as Nietzsche put it: how to become who you are. On the whole, Blixen's authorship can be seen as an existential study of the 20th century and the ways by which Western culture came to be what it is now. In agreement with Nietzsche's statement that all philosophy is an involuntary autobiography, this book also contains accounts of the lives of the three philosophers chiefly involved in this study.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements &amp

Thanks

Preface

Karen Blixen: A Brief Biography

"The Dreamers": A Gothic Autobiography

Story and Myth: "A Classic, Static Flight"

Søren Kierkegaard: A Genius in a Market Town

Blixen on Kierkegaard's Stages

"Babette's Feast": Haute Cuisine and the Holy Spirit

Ehrengard: Alpine Glow

"The Heroine": Kierkegaard, Venus and Diana

Friedrich Nietzsche: Love Your Fate

Blixen, Nietzsche, and the Notorious Conjunction

"Peter and Rosa": The Wild Dogs in the Parsonage

Blixen, Sartre and Jung: Fate and Nothingness

"Sorrow-Acre": Playing God

"A Country Tale": "There shall be justice on earth"

Truth in Madison Square Garden

Appendix

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Kaaber, Lars Karen Blixen's Existentialism

ISBN:

1-5275-4604-7