The Sickness unto Death Penalty: To Condemn the Other to Despair for the Sake of One’s Own Despair
This paper will give a secularized account of the role that intersubjectivity plays in an individual’s despair. I will investigate the dynamics that might bring one individual to actively try to bring another into despair by working their way into the other’s self-relation. I will argue that such dy...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2024
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Kierkegaard studies. Yearbook
Year: 2024, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-96 |
| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture VA Philosophy ZD Psychology |
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| Summary: | This paper will give a secularized account of the role that intersubjectivity plays in an individual’s despair. I will investigate the dynamics that might bring one individual to actively try to bring another into despair by working their way into the other’s self-relation. I will argue that such dynamics result from defiance, which is a form of despair, and will illustrate my point using Faust’s relationship to Margarete as an example. However, I will also keep in mind that despair is a "dialectical" sickness and that one’s defiance, when confronted to its own limits, might have to shift in order to subsist. |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9792 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kierkegaard studies. Yearbook
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/kierke-2024-0005 |