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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784400703321

Autore

Hale Geoffrey A

Titolo

Kierkegaard and the ends of language [[electronic resource] /] / Geoffrey A. Hale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8166-9251-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Disciplina

198/.9

Soggetti

Language and languages - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Kierkegaard who? the problem for posterity -- Learning to read : Adorno, Kierkegaard, and Konstruktion -- Affirmation : "death's decision" and the figural imperative in Rilke and Kierkegaard -- The other proposition : philosophical fragments and the grammar of life -- Abraham : departures.

Sommario/riassunto

In mutually reflective readings of Kierkegaard's foundational texts through the work of three pivotal authors-Franz Kafka, Theodor Adorno, and Rainer Maria Rilke-Hale shows how each of these writers draws attention to the unwavering sense of human finitude that pervades all of Kierkegaard's work and, with it, the profoundly unsettling indeterminacy in which it results.