Kierkegaard, Eve, and metaphors of birth /
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| Author / Creator: | Assiter, Alison, author. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2015] |
| Description: | xxv, 213 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10175114 |
| 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.<br> <br> <br> <br> 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 birthing--the capacity to give birth as well as the notion of a birthing body. She goes on to argue that the story offered by Kierkegaard in The Concept of Anxiety about the origin of freedom connects with a birthing body, and that Kierkegaard offers a speculative hypothesis, in terms of metaphors of birthing, about the nature of Being.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 213 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781783483242 1783483245 9781783483259 1783483253 9781783483266 |
