The Nothingness of the Anguish in Søren Kierkegaard’s work as Modernity’s Infernal Redemption

• Authors: Francisc-Norbert Ormeny
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The intention of this short study is to discuss the reverberations of Søren Kierkegaard’s  philosophical considerations on anguish and on void in the context of the latest postmodern theoretical trends (Ben Woodard’s dark vitalism), by presenting the mechanisms by means of which the anguish gets to produce an  “existential switch” which extracts the individual from the register of disintegration and introduces him into the register of the project (Heideggerianly speaking). I will try to demonstrate the compatibility between the structures of the late modernity and the Kierkegaardian vision on tension and on paradox, and will I will attempt to connect the possible findings to the relevant and congenial phenomenological, existentialist and aesthetic theories or set of theories circulating in today’s exegetical canon.

Keywords

EN

anguish, communication with an undetermined differential, nothingness, void, individualization

• Publisher: Fundacja Pro Scientia Publica
• Journal: Journal of Education Culture and Society
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 11-19

Dates

published

2020-01-03

Contributors

author

Francisc-Norbert Ormeny

• Faculty of Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University Strada Mihail Kogălniceanu 1, Cluj-Napoca 400084, Romania

References

• Beabout, G. (2002). Drawing out the relationship between anxiety and despair in Kierkegaard’s Writings. In: D. W. Conway, K. E. Gover (Eds.), Søren Kierkegaard Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (Volume II Epistemology and Psychology: Kierkegaard and the Recoil from Freedom (pp. 35-48). London, New York: Routledge.
• Carman, T. (2000). Must We Be Inauthentic? In: M. Wrathall, J. Malpas (Eds.), Heidegger, Authenticity, and Modernity (Essay in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus Volume 1) (pp. 13-28). Cambridge (Massachusetts), London: MIT Press.
• Ciomoş, V. (2006). Conştiinţă şi Schimbare în Critica Raţiunii Pure, o perspectivă arhitectonică asupra kantianismului [Consciousness and Change in the Critique of Pure Reason, an architectonic perspective on Kantianism]. Bucureşti: Editura Humanitas.
• Diaconu, M. (1996). Pe Marginea Abisului, Søren Kierkegaard şi nihilismul secolului al XIX [On the Edge of the Precipice, Søren Kierkegaard and the Nihilism of the 19th Century]. Bucureşti: Editura Ştiinţifică.
• Gardiner, P. (1988). Kierkegaard. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
• Giddens, A. (1992). Modernity and Self-Identity (Self and Societies in the late Modern Age). Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and Time. New York: Harper and Row.
• Hutcheon, L. (2003). The Politics of Postmodernism. London, New York: Routledge.
• Kierkegaard, S. (1980). The Concept of Anxiety. Princeton: Princeton University Press
• Kierkegaard, S. (1980a). The Sickness Unto Death. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Land, N. (1990). Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism. New York: Routledge.
• Lefebvre, H. (1995). Introduction to Modernity: Twelve Preludes, September 1959-May 1961. London: Verso Press.
• Lukes, Daniel. (2013). Black Metal Machine. Theorizing Industrial Black Metal. Helvete (A Journal of Black Metal Theory), 1. 69-93.
• McDonald, W. (2009). Kierkegaard’s Demonic Boredom. In: B. D. Pezze, C. Salzani (Eds.), Essays on Boredom and Modernity (pp. 61-84). Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi.
• Tillich, P. (2000). The Courage to Be (2nd ed.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Weil, S. (2003). Gravity and Grace. London, New York: Routledge.
• Woodard, B. (2013). On an Ungrounded Earth (Towards a New Geophilosophy). Brooklyn, New York: Punctum Books.

Identifiers

DOI

10.15503/jecs20151.11.19