Abstract
In this paper, I reconstruct the understanding of selfhood in The Sickness unto Death. Using Leo Tolstoy’s character Ivan Ilyich, I argue that one can become alienated from oneself, although one is completely socially recognized. I critically engage this reconstruction with the theories of social agency of Axel Honneth and Robert Pippin and the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre. In the end, Anti-Climacus offers a notion of self-relating selfhood, which keeps a balance between the radical self-construction of Sartre and the theories of social dependency of Honneth and Pippin by understanding “God” as the necessity of having irreducibly personal reasons for becoming oneself.
Bidragets oversatte titel | Anerkendelse, selvanerkendelse og Gud: En fortolkning af Sygdommen til Døden som en eksistentiel teori om selvanerkendensel |
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Originalsprog | Engelsk |
Artikelnummer | 6 |
Tidsskrift | Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook |
Vol/bind | 23 |
Udgave nummer | 1 |
Sider (fra-til) | 125-154 |
Antal sider | 30 |
ISSN | 1430-5372 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - jul. 2018 |
Emneord
- Kierkegaard
- Eksistensfilosofi
- Robert Pippin
- Axel Honneth
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- anerkendelse
- selvidentitet