A Promise Kept, a Self Repeated?: Reading Gjentagelsen with Ricoeur
Based on Paul Ricoeur’s concept of ipseity and the role of promising for constituting selfhood as non-identical permanence in time, the article revisits the controversy whether or not the young man in Repetition experiences a repetition of the self. Considering Hans Lipps’s notion of the radical ope...
| Published in: | Kierkegaard studies / Yearbook |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017
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Kierkegaard studies / Yearbook
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| RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropology TJ Modern history TK Recent history VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Based on Paul Ricoeur’s concept of ipseity and the role of promising for constituting selfhood as non-identical permanence in time, the article revisits the controversy whether or not the young man in Repetition experiences a repetition of the self. Considering Hans Lipps’s notion of the radical openness of a promise based on solicitude as much as Ricoeur’s “fundamental promise” to be faithful to oneself, two different perspectives are provided in order to interpret the young man’s break with his fiancée. According to both perspectives it can coherently be claimed that in the realm of ethical selfhood as depicted by Ricoeur in Oneself as Another and The Course of Recognition, the young man non-identically repeats his self. |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9792 |
| Contains: | In: Kierkegaard studies / Yearbook
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/kierke-2017-0016 |