Kierkegaard's Instant: On Beginnings (Studies in Continental Thought)
David J. Kangas
In Kierkegaard's Instant, David J. Kangas reads Kierkegaard to reveal his radical thinking about temporality. For Kierkegaard, the instant of becoming, in which everything changes in the blink of an eye, eludes recollection and anticipation. It constitutes a beginning always already at work. As Kangas shows, Kierkegaard's retrieval of the sudden quality of temporality allows him to stage a deep critique of the idealist projects of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. By linking Kierkegaard's thought to the tradition of Meister Eckhart, Kangas formulates the central problem of these early texts and puts them into contemporary light -- can thinking hold itself open to the challenges of temporality?
Year:
2007
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
256
ISBN 10:
0253348595
ISBN 13:
9780253348593
File:
PDF, 935 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2007