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- Title
The Dialectic of Recognition in Works of Love.
- Authors
GRØN, ARNE
- Abstract
Vision plays a crucial role in Kierkegaard's Works of Love by virtue of its normative or ethical significance. The aim of this article is to discern a remodeled dialectic of recognition in this ethics of vision. In Works of Love, the dialectic of seeing others seeing oneself is viewed through negative phenomena such as arrogance and envy. This negative detour, however, points to the problem of recognition as an ethical one: affirming the distinctiveness of the other. It is argued that ethical asymmetry allows for a positive concept of reciprocity. The dialectic of recognition is remodeled by being embedded in an ethics of vision.
- Publication
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 1998, Vol 1998, Issue 1, p147
- ISSN
1430-5372
- Publication type
Article