Kierkegaard on Woman, Gender, and Love

by Sylvia Walsh

Publisher:

Mercer University Press

, 2022

Overview

This collection of essays on Kierkegaard consists of various articles published in academic journals over the course of several decades. They address dominant and consistent themes in Kierkegaard’s authorship, demonstrating the importance of these topics for understanding his authorship as a whole and for contemporary discussions of these issues. In particular, these articles seek to bring his thought into conversation with woman and gender studies in contemporary feminist philosophy and hermeneutics as well as other forms of interpretation. Many of the essays appeared in the International Kierkegaard Commentary edited by fellow Kierkegaard scholar, Robert L. Perkins, and it is in his memory that they are dedicated.

Key Features

• Addresses dominant and consistent themes in Kierkegaard’s authorship.
• Seeks to bring his thought into conversation with woman and gender studies.
• Presents contemporary feminist philosophy and hermeneutics.

Contents

• 1. Issues That Divide: Interpreting Kierkegaard on Woman and Gender
• 2. Veni, Vidi, Vici: Immediacy and Reflection as Gendered Categories in Kierkegaard’s Thought
• 3. Desire and Love in Kierkegaard’s Either/Or
• 4. When “That Single Individual” Is a Woman
• 5. On “Feminine” and “Masculine” Forms of Despair
• 6. If the Lily Could Speak: On the Contentment and Glory of Being Human
• 7. Prototypes of Piety: The Woman Who Was a Sinner and Mary Magdalene
• 8. Ironic Love: An Amorist Interpretation of Socratic Eros
• 9. Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Love
• 10. Forming the Heart: The Role of Love in Kierkegaard’s Thought
• 11. Feminine Devotion and Self-Abandonment: Simone de Beauvoir and Søren Kierkegaard on the Woman in Love
• 12. Subjectivity versus Objectivity: Kierkegaard’s Postscript and Feminist Epistemology
• 13. The Philosophical Affirmation of Gender Differences: Kierkegaard versus Post-Modern Neo-Feminism
• 14. Godly and Ungodly Women: Gender and Sexual Politics in Kierkegaard and American Fundamentalism
• 15. Kierkegaard’s Erotic Hermeneutics as a Proto-Feminist Alternative to Hegelian, Nietzschean, and Derridean-Deconstructive Hermeneutics

Product Details

• Title: Kierkegaard on Woman, Gender, and Love
• Author: Sylvia Walsh
• Publisher: Mercer University Press
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Pages: 268
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9780881468618, 0881468614
• Resource ID: LLS:KRKGRDWMNGNDRLV
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-18T16:00:27Z