Aparte: Conceptions and Deaths of Soren Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard and postmodernism)

550 Pages·1988·1.26 MB·English

by  Sylviane Agacinski

Aparté : Conceptions and Deaths of
title: Søren Kierkegaard Kierkegaard and
Postmodernism
author: Agacinski, Sylviane.
publisher: University Press of Florida
isbn10 | asin: 0813008875
print isbn13: 9780813008875
ebook isbn13: 9780813018911
language: English
Kierkegaard, Søren,--1813-1855--
subject Criticism and interpretation,
Postmodernism.
publication date: 1988
lcc: PT8142.Z5A5613 1988eb
ddc: 198/.9
Kierkegaard, Søren,--1813-1855--
subject:
Criticism and interpretation,
Postmodernism.
Page i
Kierkegaard and Postmodernism
General Editor
Mark C. Taylor, Williams College
Associate Editors
E. F. Kaelin, The Florida State University
Louis Mackey, The University of Texas at Austin
Page ii
O
THER WORKS IN THE SERIES
Points of View: Readings of Kierkegaard
by Louis Mackey (1986)
A Question of Eros: Irony in Sterne, Kierkegaard, and Barthes
by John Vignaux Smyth (1986)
Kierkegaard and the Problem of Writing
by Pat Bigelow (1988)
Page iii
Aparté
Conceptions and Deaths of Søren Kierkegaard
Sylviane Agacinski
Translated with an introduction by
Kevin Newmark
University Presses of Florida
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
TALLAHASSEE
Page iv
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University and from the Cultural Ministry of France.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Agacinski, Sylviane.
[Aparté. English]
Aparté: conceptions and deaths of Søren Kierkegaard / Sylviane
Agacinski; translated and with an introduction by Kevin Newmark.
p. cm.(Kierkegaard and postmodernism)
Translation of: Aparté.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8130-0887-5 (alk. paper): $24.95
1. Kierkegaard, Søren, 18131855Criticism and interpretation.
2. Postmodernism. I. Title. II. Series.
PT8142.Z5A5613 1988
198'.9dc19 87-24072
CIP
Originally published as Aparté: conceptions et morts de Sören
Kierkegaard, La philosophie en effet (Paris: Aubier Flammarion, 1977).
Copyright © 1988 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida
Printed in the U.S.A. on acid-free paper. ¥

Page v
Contents
Foreword ix
by Mark C. Taylor
Taking Kierkegaard Apart 3
by Kevin Newmark
On a Thesis 33
Irony as a Subject?
Socratic IronyPure Negativity
The Double Valorization of Negative Dialectics
Apology for a Seducer
Politically Blameworthy Irony
The Nontragic Death of Socrates
Irony: Nondialectizable Negativity
The Serious Side of the Thesis: The Defense
Economies of Sacrifice 79
Passion, Panic
The Logic of the Hero
Phantasmatics
The Cut
Sacrifice to the Letter
Apartés 127
To Write Aparté
Regine
Isaac-Job
Recollection
Detachment
Old Age
Husband and Father
The King Who Got Slapped
Repetition
The Fruitful Idea
The Breaking of the Inveiglements
Mime
The Singer Elvira and Repetition
Farce
The Sublime and the Ridiculous
Woman
Sexual Indifference
The Family
The Animal
Cannibalism: The Devourers and the Devoured
The Martyr's Desire/The Desire for Martyrdom
Hegel
The Secret
The Police
Money
Profit
Number
Imperialism
In the Margins