A path to authenticity: Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky on existential transformation
While there has been considerable interest in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard and Fyodor Dostoevsky, both of whom are considered seminal existential thinkers, relatively little has been said about similarities in their thought. In this paper, I propose to read their philosophical and literary work...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2020]
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 87, Issue: 1, Pages: 81-108 |
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Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855, Kjerlighedens gjerninger
/ Dostoevskij, Fëdor Michajlovič 1821-1881
/ Self
/ Transformation
/ Christian life
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NCB Personal ethics VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | While there has been considerable interest in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard and Fyodor Dostoevsky, both of whom are considered seminal existential thinkers, relatively little has been said about similarities in their thought. In this paper, I propose to read their philosophical and literary works together as texts that offer an elaborate model of an existential religious transformation. Both Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky sketch a path leading from the inauthentic, internally fragmented and egotistic self to the authentically Christian, humble and loving individual. By examining the underlying structure of this transformative process, I try to show that its portrayal is in many ways similar in the account of both writers. Furthermore, I maintain that they set out not only to describe the inner workings of the existential religious transformation, but that their effort constitutes a direct appeal to the reader to initiate the transformative process herself or himself. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-019-09732-z |