The Phenomenology of Moods in Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard himself hardly requires introduction, but his thought con­ tinues to require explication due to its inherent complexity and its unusual method of presentation. Kierkegaard is deliberately un-systematic, anti-systematic, in the very age of the System. He made his point then, and it is not...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCarthy, Vincent A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1978, 1978
Edition:1st ed. 1978
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I. Irony
  • A. Irony and the Concept in The Concept of Irony
  • B. Irony as a Measurement and Tool in the Analysis of the Aesthetic Life-View
  • II. Anxiety
  • A. Anxiety in The Concept of Anxiety
  • B. The Concept of Anxiety in Kierkegaard’s Other Writings
  • C. The Idea of Anxiety. The Experience and Structure of Anxiety
  • D. Attitudes toward Anxiety
  • E. Anxiety and the Aesthetic Life-View
  • III. Melancholy
  • A. The Term “Melancholy”
  • B. Melancholy in Either/Or
  • C. Melancholy in Repetition and Stages
  • D. Towards a Concept of Melancholy
  • IV. Despair
  • A. Preliminary Considerations
  • B. Despair in Either/Or
  • C. Despair in The Sickness Unto Death
  • D. The Idea of Despair
  • E. Despair and the Aesthetic Life-View
  • V. The Moods and Subjectivity of the Young Aesthete Johannes
  • A. Johannes’ Irony
  • B. His Anxiety
  • C. His Melancholy
  • D. His Despair
  • E. Dialetic of Moods in Johannes
  • VI. The Dialectic of Moods
  • A. Defining “Mood”
  • B. The Crisis-Sequence
  • C. Interrelationships
  • D. Function of Moods in Emerging Religious Subjectivity
  • E. Moods and Life-Views
  • VII. From Victim to Master of Moods: Towards the Christian Life-View
  • A. Preliminary Considerations
  • B. Life-View in From the Papers of One Still Living
  • C. Life-View in The Book on Adler
  • D. Life-View in Either/Or, Stages and the Postscript
  • E. Life-View in the Papirer
  • F. The Meaning of Life-View
  • G. The Aesthetic Life-View Exposed
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography