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Isotopography - (Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph) by Niels Wilde (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- While the concept of place remains undertheorized in Kierkegaard research, this study argues that place is at the center of Kierkegaard's thinking.
- About the Author: Niels Wilde, Aarhus University, Denmark.
- 280 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Christian Theology
- Series Name: Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph
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About the Book
To become oneself is a movement at the place by becoming the place where God is. This is a key sentence in Kierkegaard's existential philosophy, but the specific notion of place in question remains undertheorized. This book is an attempt to make uBook Synopsis
While the concept of place remains undertheorized in Kierkegaard research, this study argues that place is at the center of Kierkegaard's thinking. The first part of the book shows that Kierkegaard's notion of situatedness as being-placed in a socio-historical situation conditioned by a situation prior to situatedness points to a realist position and a flat ontology.
Secondly, the book develops a detailed analysis of the ontological structure of the existential place (the place we ourselves are) and concrete places (the places where we are). Place opens a qualified space within bounds (the existence-sphere), an atmosphere of elemental attunement and attuned elementality.
Finally, the book collects the dots from part one and two in a topological realist approach to Kierkegaard's theology and three main definitions of God: God is love, God is that everything is possible, and God is the middle term. The book concludes that Kierkegaard's existential topography reveals a realist position: where we are is never exhausted by being the place where we are.
About the Author
Niels Wilde, Aarhus University, Denmark.