In Kierkegaard's Instant, David J. Kangas reads Kierkegaard to reveal his radical thinking about temporality. For Kierkegaard, the instant of becoming, in which everything changes in the blink of an eye, eludes recollection and anticipation. It constitutes a beginning always already at work. As Kangas shows, Kierkegaard's retrieval of the sudden quality of temporality allows him to stage a deep critique of the idealist projects of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. By linking Kierkegaard's thought to the tradition of Meister Eckhart, Kangas formulates the central problem of these early texts and puts them into contemporary light -- can thinking hold itself open to the challenges of temporality?
Author(s): David J. Kangas
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 256
CONTENTS......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Notes on Sources......Page 14
Introduction: Ungrounding Subjectivity......Page 18
1. The Infinite Beginning (The Concept ofIrony)......Page 29
2. Endless Time (Either/or 1)......Page 58
3. Entering into Philosophy (De omnibus dubitandum est)......Page 82
4. Repetition (Repetition)......Page 108
5. Absolute Relation to the Ab-solute (Fear and Trembling)......Page 142
6. The Instant (The Concept of Anxiety)......Page 177
Conclusion: The Exteriority of Interiority......Page 212
Notes......Page 216
Bibliography......Page 242
Index......Page 248
