Essays about: "Sören Kierkegaard 1813-1855"
Found 2 essays containing the words Sören Kierkegaard 1813-1855.
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1. Back To and Beyond Socrates : An Essay on the Rise and Rhetoric of Existential Pedagogy
University essay from Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaAbstract : This essay concerns itself with the historical background to what it refers to as existential pedagogy, which designates the way in which existential literature presumably seeks to affect the reader so that he experiences his existence as isolated, and how this is done through the employment of harsh and uncompromising language and rhetorical devices. The assumption underlying this project is that there is a pedagogical purpose to the existential manner of de-livery, and this essay traces this purpose back to how in the 18th century certain thinkers – Johann Georg Hamann and Friedrich Schlegel – came to look back at Socrates rhetorical en-deavour in order to perfect their own desire to place the question of ‘meaning’, ‘knowledge’ or ‘truth’ into the hands of the receiving individual – the reader of a text or the student of a teacher. READ MORE
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2. On a paradoxical jouissance, or the limit of desire and fantasy : Kierkegaard through Lacan
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskapAbstract : The aim of this study is to offer a Lacanian psychoanalytic reading of some of the Danish philosopher/theologian Søren Kierkegaard's main writings. The thesis that I advance is that Kierkegaard is a subject of the lack, and that his writings are a modality of existentially handling this fundamental and constitutive lack. READ MORE
