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Kierkegaard’s Mirrors

Interest, Self, and Moral Vision

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  1. Patrick Stokes
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Patrick Stokes
      Pages 1-14

  3. Structures of Subjectivity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. The Interesting and the Interested: Stages on a Concept’s Way

      • Patrick Stokes
      Pages 17-28

    3. The Structure of Consciousness

      • Patrick Stokes
      Pages 29-46

    4. Consciousness as Interest

      • Patrick Stokes
      Pages 47-60

    5. The Ontology of the Self

      • Patrick Stokes
      Pages 61-69

  4. Moral Vision

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Imagination and Agency

      • Patrick Stokes
      Pages 73-94

    3. Self-Recognition

      • Patrick Stokes
      Pages 95-110

    4. Mirrors

      • Patrick Stokes
      Pages 111-133

    5. Seeing the Other

      • Patrick Stokes
      Pages 134-144

  5. Knowledge and Meaning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Concern, Misfortune, and Despair

      • Patrick Stokes
      Pages 147-159

    3. Interest in the Postscript: The Telos of Knowing

      • Patrick Stokes
      Pages 160-178

  6. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion

      • Patrick Stokes
      Pages 179-183

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 184-223
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What is it to see the world, other people, and imagined situations as making personal moral demands of us? What is it to experience stories as speaking to us personally and directly? Kierkegaard's Mirrors explores Kierkegaard's answers to these questions, with a new phenomenological interpretation of Kierkegaardian 'interest'.

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'In a wonderful exhibit of archival retrieval, Patrick Stokes has written a fine account of an underappreciated theme, interesse, as it crops up here and there through the course of the Kierkegaardian oeuvre, its systematic implications heretofore largely unnoticed. This careful and creative tracking allows us to see anew the familiar philosophical motifs that become the bread and butter of so much Kierkegaard commentary subjectivity, selfhood, passion, love, imagination, and so forth. It is no small achievement to have opened the door to a reassessment or reconfiguration of this presumably familiar territory. But I found in working slowly through the successive chapters of this book that Stokes was accomplishing just that. He's found a powerful new prism through which to cast the beams of the enigmatic texts that concern us.' Kierkegaard Newsletter

'...Stokes's book is, without doubt, one of the, if not the, best account of Kierkegaard as a philosopher and moral psychologist ever written. Kierkegaard's Mirrors is essential reading for anyone interested in Kierkegaard, and the continuing debate about how his work and thought is to be understood.' Jamie Turnbull, British Journal for the History of Philosophy

'...Interesting and original...' - Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy

About the author

PATRICK STOKES is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne, Australia. Please also see www.patrickstokes.com
 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Kierkegaard’s Mirrors

  • Book Subtitle: Interest, Self, and Moral Vision

  • Authors: Patrick Stokes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230251267

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Patrick Stokes 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-24000-1Published: 18 November 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31632-8Published: 18 November 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-25126-7Published: 18 November 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 223

  • Topics: History of Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Ethics

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