Word and Spirit
A Kierkegaardian Critique of the Modern Age
Published on 22. March 1993
Book
Hardback
236 pages
978-0-253-32752-9 (ISBN)
Description
By means of a Kierkegaardian critique of postmodernism, Ronald L. Hall argues that the postmodernist flirtation with Kierkegaard ignores the existential import of his thought. Word and Spirit offers a novel interpretation of Kierkegaard's conception of the self, according to which spirit is essentially linked to the speech act. In an extended interpretation of Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Hall uses insights from Austin, Wittgenstein, Polanyi, and Poteat to fill out and explicate Kierkegaard's views in the context of modern language philosophy. The enriched concept of the speech act represented by the Hebrew idea of dabhar frames Hall's critique of irony, romanticism, Don Giovanni, Faust, the demonic, music, and ultimately, postmodernisim in a Kierkegaardian mode. The result of the modern suspicion of speech, Hall concludes, is a demonic, musical spiritlessness.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
521 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-32752-9 (9780253327529)
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Person
Ronald L. Hall
Content
Acknowledgments Abbreveations Prologue: KierkegaardOs Critique of the Modern Age I. Sensuality and Spirit Spirit as Psyche Spirit as Pneuma Architecture and Scuopture: Psychical Paradigms of Aesthetic Immediacy Music and Speech: Pneumatic Paradigms of Aesthetic and Existential Immediacy II. Dabhar and Existential Immediacy Speech and Human Being Speech and Being Human Word and Spirit Freedom and Temporality Efficacy and Contingency III. Don Giovanni, Music, and the Demonic Immediacy of Sensuality Music, Wordlessness, and Anxiety The Demonic Retreat from the Word Music and Sensuous Immediacy Lyricism and Reflective Immediacy IV. Faust, Romantic Irony, and the Demonic Immediacy of Spirituality The Faustian Project Faust and Modernity Modern Science and Mathematics-as-Music The Humanities and Speech-as-Music V. Post-Modernism and the Triumph of the Demonic Speaking as Reading, Speaking as Writing, and Writing as Music Coping with the Flux Epilogue: Mastered Irony and the Recovery of Spirit Notes Index