Feminist Interpretations of Soren Kierkegaard - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 027101699X ISBN 13 : 9780271016993

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997

Synopsis

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 écriture féminine.

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, Céline Léon, Tamsin Lorraine, Robert L. Perkins, Mark L. Taylor, Sylvia Walsh, and Julia Watkin.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Céline Léon is Professor of French and Humanities at Grove City College. Her publications include articles on Simone de Beauvoir and contemporary French feminism.

Sylvia Walsh, who has taught at Clark Atlanta University and Stetson University, is the author of Living Poetically: Kierkegaard's Existential Aesthetics (Penn State, 1994).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 027101699X
• ISBN 13: 9780271016993
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Éditeur: Leon Celine, Walsh Sylvia
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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