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- Title
"Out into the Middle of Life": The Age of Disintegration and Ecological Perspectives in Kierkegaard's Thought.
- Authors
Ryan, Bartholomew
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
EXPERIMENTAL literature; EXPERIMENTAL philosophy; MODERNITY
- Publication
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 2019, Vol 24, Issue 1, p437
- ISSN
1430-5372
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/kierke-2019-0018