Feminist Interpretations of Soren Kierkegaard (Re-Reading the Canon)
(Part of the Re-Reading the Canon Series)
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Unlike many of the major figures in Western philosophy, Kierkegaard explores many issues of interest to feminist theorists today. Moreover, he does so in a style-labyrinthine, many-voiced, multilayered, adverse to authority-that adumbrates ?criture f?minine. A major question probed in the volume is whether Kierkegaard's writings are misogynist, ambivalent, or essentialist in their views of women and the feminine or whether, in some important and vital ways, they are liberatory and empowering for feminists and women trying to free themselves from the maze of patriarchal constructs. The essays also show how the three existence-spheres-aesthetic, ethical, and religious-articulated in Kierkegaard's authorship inscribe different modalities of the sexual relation: seduction for the aesthetic, marriage for the ethical, and absence from commerce with the other sex for the religious. Contributors are Sylviane Agacinski, Wanda Warren Berry, Birgit Bertung, Jane Duran, Leslie A. Howe, C?line L?on, Tamsin Lorraine, Robert L. Perkins, Mark L. Taylor, Sylvia Walsh, and Julia Watkin.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:027101699X
ISBN13:9780271016993
Release Date:September 1997
Publisher:Penn State University Press
Length:376 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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