LEADER 03337nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910458863403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-71646-8 010 $a9786612716461 010 $a3-11-174235-0 010 $a3-11-022689-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110226898 035 $a(CKB)2670000000018710 035 $a(EBL)516542 035 $a(OCoLC)630538842 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000399315 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11231918 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000399315 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10376281 035 $a(PQKB)10420055 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC516542 035 $a(DE-B1597)38449 035 $a(OCoLC)639016126 035 $a(OCoLC)775644708 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110226898 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL516542 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10381215 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL271646 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000018710 100 $a20091229d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBetween nihilism and faith$b[electronic resource] $ea commentary in Either/or /$fKarsten Harries 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cWalter de Gruyter$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (201 p.) 225 0 $aKierkegaard studies. Monograph series,$x1434-2952 ;$v21 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-022688-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $t1. Introduction -- $t2. Diapsalmata -- $t3. Immediacy and Reflection -- $t4. Don Juan -- $t5. Modern Tragedy -- $t6. The Fellowship of the Dead -- $t7. Kitsch -- $t8. The Rotation of Crops -- $t9. The Diary of the Seducer -- $t10. In Defense of Marriage -- $t11. Two Concepts of Freedom -- $t12. The Meaning of "Either-Or" -- $t13. Ultimatum -- $t Backmatter 330 $aIf the Enlightenment turned to reason to reoccupy the place left vacant by the death of God, the history of the last two centuries has undermined the confidence that reason will bind freedom and keep it responsible. We cannot escape this history, which has issued in a pervasive nihilism and has rendered all appeals to the ethical questionable. Nor could Kierkegaard. The specter of nihilism haunts all of his writings, as it haunts already German romanticism, to which he is so indebted. To exorcize it is his most fundamental concern. And it is the same fundamentally religious concern that makes Kierkegaard so relevant to our situation: What today is to make life meaningful? If not reason, does the turn to the aesthetic promise an answer? To really choose is to bind freedom. Either-Or calls us to make such a choice, i.e. to be authentic. But what does it mean to be authentic? How are we today to think of such an authentic choice? As autonomous action? As a blind leap? As a leap of faith? Either/Or circles around these questions. 410 0$aKierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series 606 $aDanish literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDanish literature. 676 $a198/.9 700 $aHarries$b Karsten$0260492 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458863403321 996 $aBetween nihilism and faith$92459881 997 $aUNINA