FORGOING THE SELF IN KIERKEGAARD’S PHILOSOPHY

• Authors: Yansori Ali
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

There have been a considerable number of reactions against scholars who put radical subjectivity at the centre of Kierkegaard’s philosophy. These reactions emphasize the importance of social existence in Kierkegaard’s works. The present paper agrees with these reactions, but it goes one step further by arguing that: once individuality has been established, the individual should, in certain circumstances, cut back on their individuality to become open to others. In this paper, the phrase “forgoing the self” is used as an umbrella term to discuss various forms of this process, e.g., forgetting the self, denying the self.

Keywords

EN

SØREN KIERKEGAARD; SUBJECTIVITY; SELF; SOCIETY; INDIVIDUALISM

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 78
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 115 – 127

Contributors

author

Yansori Ali

• Palacký University, Faculty of Arts, Křížkovského 12, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3942-5992

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2023.78.2.4