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- Title
Recognition, Self-Recognition, and God: An Interpretation of The Sickness unto Death as an Existential Theory of Self-Recognition.
- Authors
Lundsgaard-Leth, Kresten
- Abstract
In this paper, I reconstruct the understanding of selfhood in The Sickness unto Death. Using Leo Tolstoy's character Ivan Ilyich, I argue that one can become alienated from oneself, although one is completely socially recognized. I critically engage this reconstruction with the theories of social agency of Axel Honneth and Robert Pippin and the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre. In the end, Anti-Climacus offers a notion of self-relating selfhood, which keeps a balance between the radical self-construction of Sartre and the theories of social dependency of Honneth and Pippin by understanding "God" as the necessity of having irreducibly personal reasons for becoming oneself.
- Subjects
KIERKEGAARD, Soren, 1813-1855; TOLSTOY, Leo, graf, 1828-1910; CHRISTIAN ethics; PIPPIN, Robert B., 1948-; SICKNESS Unto Death, The (Book : Kierkegaard)
- Publication
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 2018, Vol 23, Issue 1, p125
- ISSN
1430-5372
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/kierke-2018-0007