TY - JOUR
T1 - Out into the Middle of Life
T2 - The Age of Disintegration and Ecological Perspectives in Kierkegaard’s Thought
AU - Ryan, Bartholomew John
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UID%2FFIL%2F00183%2F2019/PT#
UID/FIL/00183/2019
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This essay is an attempt to link aspects of Kierkegaard’s experimental writings with new contemporary ecological perspectives which—in the act of interpenetration—are fusing philosophy, science, literature, anthropology, political thought, new economic perspectives, and visual and sound media, in order to open up new ways to live and flourish on a damaged planet—in our “age of disintegration.” I present Kierkegaard’s diagnosis of his time as “the age of disintegration” (from 1848) as something that can be connected to the contemporary socio-political conditions in late modernity, and to the new epoch on the horizon which we are now experiencing. I interpret Kierkegaard’s expression “out into the middle of life” as the kernel of Kierkegaard’s authorship of interruption and unsettling. I argue it can be implicitly included in aspects of ecological perspectives offered by innovative writers today.
AB - This essay is an attempt to link aspects of Kierkegaard’s experimental writings with new contemporary ecological perspectives which—in the act of interpenetration—are fusing philosophy, science, literature, anthropology, political thought, new economic perspectives, and visual and sound media, in order to open up new ways to live and flourish on a damaged planet—in our “age of disintegration.” I present Kierkegaard’s diagnosis of his time as “the age of disintegration” (from 1848) as something that can be connected to the contemporary socio-political conditions in late modernity, and to the new epoch on the horizon which we are now experiencing. I interpret Kierkegaard’s expression “out into the middle of life” as the kernel of Kierkegaard’s authorship of interruption and unsettling. I argue it can be implicitly included in aspects of ecological perspectives offered by innovative writers today.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1515/kierke-2019-0018
DO - https://doi.org/10.1515/kierke-2019-0018
M3 - Article
SN - 1430-5372
VL - 24
SP - 437
EP - 462
JO - Kierkegaard Studies
JF - Kierkegaard Studies
IS - 1
ER -