Karsten Harries

Between Nihilism and Faith (eBook, PDF)

A Commentary on Either/Or

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

If the Enlightenment turned to reason to reoccupy the place left vacant by the death of God, the last two centuries have undermined such faith in reason. We cannot escape this history. The specter of nihilism haunts Either/Or. To exorcize it is Kierkegaard's most fundamental concern. But where are we to turn? To an aesthetic transfiguration of, or escape from reality? Does ethics promise an answer? Or is all that is left an irrational leap to religion? All such questions are shadowed by the specter of Kitsch.What does it mean to be authentic in the modern world?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Walter de Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783110226898
• Artikelnr.: 48599119

Autorenporträt

Karsten Harries, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.