Alison Assiter

Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There has been a recent revival of interest in reading Kierkegaard as an ontologist, as a thinker who engages with questions about the kinds of entity or process that constitute ultimate reality. This new way of reading Kierkegaard stands alongside a revival of interest in ontology and metaphysics more generally.

This highly original book concentrates on the claim that Kierkegaard focuses in part on ontological questions and on issues pertaining to the nature of being as a whole. Alison Assiter asserts that Being, for Kierkegaard, following Schelling, can be read in terms of conceptions of birthing-the capacity to give birth as well as the notion of a birthing body. She goes on to argue that the story offered by Kierkegaard in The Concept of Anxiety about the origin of freedom connects with a birthing body, and that Kierkegaard offers a speculative hypothesis, in terms of metaphors of birthing, about the nature of Being.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783483266
• Artikelnr.: 42887675

Autorenporträt

Alison Assiter is a professor of feminist theory at UWE, Bristol. She is a philosopher and has written a number of books on political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and Søren Kierkegaard's philosophy. Her two most recent books are A New Theory of Human Rights: New Materialism and Zoroastrianism and Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth. She is an active campaigner on human rights issues, an editor of the journal Feminist Dissent, and has volunteered in an organization for refugees and migrants.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Contingent and Chaotic Reality
2. A Challenge to Chaos
3. Kant, Freedom and Evil
4. Kierkegaard and Schelling on Process
5. The Concept of Anxiety and Kant
6. Kierkegaard on Women
7. Metaphors of Birth in Kierkegaard
8. More on Birthing
9. Nature as a Body that can Birth
10. The Age of Revolution and the Present Age
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index