ABSTRACT

In Selves in Discord and Resolve, Edward Mooney examines the Wittgensteinian and deconstructive accounts of subjectivity to illuminate the rich legacy left by Kierkegaard's representation of the self in modes of self-understanding and self-articulation. Mooney situates Kierkegaard in the context of a post-Nietzschean crisis of individualism, and evokes the Socratric influences on Kierkegaard's thinking and shows how Kierkegaard's philsophy relies upon the Socratic care for the soul. He examines Kierkegaard's work on Judge Wilhelm, from Either/Or, Socrates, in the Postscript and Abraham and Job in Repetition and Fear and Trembling.

chapter |10 pages

Preliminaries

Philosophy, Portraits, and Poetry

chapter |16 pages

Self-Choice or Self-Reception

Judge Wilhelm's Admonition

chapter |14 pages

Getting Back the World

Kierkegaard on the Book of Job

chapter |13 pages

Faith and Simple Shopmen

Fear and Trembling: One

chapter |9 pages

Absolutes and Artistry

Fear and Trembling: Two

chapter |12 pages

Kierkegaard Our Contemporary

Postscript Themes and Postanalytical Philosophy

chapter |12 pages

A View from Here and Now

Subjectivity and Double Vision

chapter |15 pages

Music of the Spheres

Kierkegaardian Selves and Transformations