Isotopography

Kierkegaard’s Topological Realism
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-154850-0
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 532 g

Reihe: Kierkegaard studies : [...], Monograph series

While the concept of place remains undertheorized in Kierkegaard research, this study argues that place is at the center of Kierkegaard’s thinking. The first part of the book shows that Kierkegaard’s notion of situatedness as being-placed in a socio-historical situation conditioned by a situation prior to situatedness points to a realist position and a flat ontology. Secondly, the book develops a detailed analysis of the ontological structure of the existential place (the place we ourselves are) and concrete places (the places where we are). Place opens a qualified space within bounds (the existence-sphere), an atmosphere of elemental attunement and attuned elementality. Finally, the book collects the dots from part one and two in a topological realist approach to Kierkegaard’s theology and three main definitions of God: God is love, God is that everything is possible, and God is the middle term. The book concludes that Kierkegaard’s existential topography reveals a realist position: where we are is never exhausted by being the place where we are.

Zielgruppe

Scholars in existential philosophy, speculative realism, object-o

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilde, Niels

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Existenzphilosophie, Lebensphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Niels Wilde, Universität Aarhus, Dänemark.

Niels Wilde, Aarhus University, Denmark.