Naked Before God: Kierkegaard's Liturgical Self
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it seeks to demonstrate how Kierkegaard's deployment of the idea of earnestness can furnish a sort of tonal "unity" to a narrative understanding of the Kierkegaardian self, which gestures toward a solution to the problem of how a narrative self...
| Subtitles: | Section 1: Problems and Perspectives in Kierkegaard’s Authorship |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
[2019]
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| In: |
Kierkegaard studies / Yearbook
Year: 2019, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 85-101 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history NBE Anthropology VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it seeks to demonstrate how Kierkegaard's deployment of the idea of earnestness can furnish a sort of tonal "unity" to a narrative understanding of the Kierkegaardian self, which gestures toward a solution to the problem of how a narrative self can be unified over time and over a multiplicity of projects and plans. Second, this paper aims to give further richness to the recent work of Patrick Stokes, who argues that the narrative self needs to be supplemented by what he calls a naked self. This paper then argues that because there are these two dimensions to selfhood—the narrative person and the naked self—the Kierkegaardian individual is in a fundamental way not so much a matter of identity as of contradiction or internal tension. |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9792 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kierkegaard studies / Yearbook
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/kierke-2019-0004 |