Synopses & Reviews
Focusing primarily on the writings of Kierkegaard and secondarily on those of Kant, St. Augustine and Schelling, this work offers a novel and challenging way of approaching the concepts of anxiety, repetition, freedom and contemporaneity. Pivotal to this project is a reinterpretation of Kierkegaard's notion of 'taking notice' and its elevation to the status of a central principle which opens up new interpretive dimensions.
Synopsis
This work uses the writings of Kierkegaard to offer a novel and challenging way of approaching the concepts of anxiety, repetition, freedom and contemporaneity. Pivotal to this project is a reinterpretation of Kierkegaard's notion of 'taking notice' and its elevation to the status of a central principle which opens up new interpretive dimensions.
Synopsis
A reinterpretation of Kierkegaard's oeuvre based on the notions of repetition, anxiety and contemporaneity.
About the Author
VASILIKI TSAKIRI currently teaches Philosophy at the University of Patras, Greece, and holds a Visiting Departmental Fellowship at the department of History, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Preface * Acknowledgements * Abbreviations * 'Taking Notice': An Introduction * PART I: ANXIETY AND INDIVIDUALITY * The
Topos of Anxiety * Anxiety, Death and the Leap * PART II: TIME, HISTORY AND THE FALL: ST. AUGUSTINE AND KANT * St. Augustine on Fallen and Redeemed Time * History, Fall, Freedom: Reflections on Kant * PART III: FREEDOM AND ETERNITY: SCHELLING'S SAGA * Schelling's Conception of Freedom and Identity * Theo-cosmo-gony: Eternal Past and Human Freedom * PART IV: KIERKEGAARD'S CREED OF FAITH: CONTEMPORANEITY AND REPETITION * Repetition: A Transcendent Movement Towards Faith * Double Contemporaneity, or the Paradox of Repetition * Concluding Thoughts * Postscript: 'Taking Notice'/On Tarkovsky's Sacrifice * Notes * Bibliography * Index