(P/B) KIERKEGAARD

Παρουσίαση

Theodor Adorno's first major published work appeared in German bookshops in February 1933. Kierkegaard challenges not only the founder but also the whole tradition of existentialism, and played an important role in the formation of the Frankfurt Schools Critical Theory. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Translator's Acknowledgments
Foreword: Critique of the Organic Robert Hullot-Kentor
1. Exposition of the Aesthetic
Poetry and Dialectical Concept-The Claim to Poetry-Poetry as Illustration-Aestheticism-Masks and Methods-Equivocations-Classicist Material Aesthetics-Formalism
2. Constitution of Inwardness
"Scripture"-Objectless Inwardness-Immanent Dialectic-Philosophy of History-''Situation''-Interieur
3. Explication of Inwardness
Sociology-The Spiritual Body-Mythical Content-Dialectical Conjuration-Melancholy-Baroque-Paradoxies of the Aesthetic
4. Concept of Existence
Existence and Truth-Paradoxy and Ambiguity-The Abstract Self-Existence Mythical-Objective Despair-Reversal of the Existential Dialectic
5. On the Logic of the Spheres
Existence and System-Origin of the Spheres-"Constellation"-Overlapping of Idealist and Ontological Elements-Humor, Accident, and "Motivation"-Confinien and "Leap"-Dialectic of the Spheres-Intermittence-Projection-Trancendences
6. Reason and Sacrifice
Self-Destruction of Idealism-Mythical Sacrifice-"Gnosis"-Paradox Sacrifice of Mere Spirit-Passio
7. Construction of the Aesthetic
Crisis of Melancholy-Passing Away of Existence-Images and Spheres-Subjective "How" and Enmity toward Art-Fantasy in the Fragment-Transcendence of Longing
Notes
Index