| Description |
xiii, 218 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Indiana series in the philosophy of religion |
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Indiana series in the philosophy of religion.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-213) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
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Self (Philosophy)
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Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hall, Ronald L., 1945- Word and spirit. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1993 (OCoLC)622329004 |
| ISBN |
0253327520 alkaline paper |
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9780253327529 alkaline paper |
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