Kierkegaard and Issues in Contemporary Ethics

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Kierkegaard and Issues in Contemporary Ethics

Edited by: Mélissa Fox-Muraton

Volume 41 in the series Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110707137

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About this book

While Kierkegaard’s philosophy focuses on concrete human existence, his thought has rarely been challenged regarding concrete and contemporary moral issues. This volume offers an overview of contemporary ethical issues from a Kierkegaardian perspective, deliberately taking him out of the sphere of Theology and Christian Ethics, and examining the ways in which his works can provide fruitful insight into questions which Kierkegaard certainly never himself envisaged, such as accepting refugees into our communities, understanding how we relate to social media, issues of identity with regard to bioengineering or transgender identity, or problems of interreligious dialogue.

The contributions in this volume, by international scholars, seek to address both the challenges and insights of Kierkegaard’s existential ethics for our contemporary societies, and its relation to topics of current interest in the field of moral philosophy. The volume is organized into three major sections: the first focusing on the relation between ethics and religion, a topic of primary importance with regard to the development of religious foundationalism and the challenges of dealing with diverse belief systems within our communities; the second on our understandings of ourselves and our relations to others with regard to issues of media and community; and the third targeting more specifically questions of identity, and the ways in which the developments of modern science impact identity construction. This work offers new paths for critically engaging with the moral issues of our times from an existential perspective.

Author / Editor information

Mélissa Fox-Muraton, ESC Clermont/Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: Kierkegaard’s Existential Ethics for the 21st Century Mélissa Fox-Muraton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Ethics And Religion
1. Either Religion or Ethics Shai Frogel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Reflections on Kierkegaard’s Internalist Perspective and Its Relation to Social Change Liam Hughes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. Kierkegaard’s Deep Diversity The One and the Many Charles Blattberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4. Kierkegaard and Interreligious Understanding Michael Glass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
5. Clemency over Forgiveness Kierkegaard’s Assessor Wilhelm as a Response to Vladimir Jankélévitch Viktoras Bachmetjevas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Part II: Media And Community
6 Choosing for Yourself in the Age of the Social Media Echo-Chamber Some Kierkegaardian Reflections on Online Algorithms Christopher Black Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
7. Kierkegaard’s Critique of the Internet Patrick Stokes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
8. Can a Refugee be One’s Neighbor in an Ethical Sense? An Attempt to Transpose the Transcendent Category of Love for One’s Neighbor from Kierkegaard’s Works of Love into Immanent Ethical Practice with Reference to the Contemporary Migration Crisis Andrzej Słowikowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
9. Equality, Mortality and Community in “At a Graveside” Reading Kierkegaard alongside Nancy and Derrida Tomer Raudanski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Part III: Challenges To Identity
10. The Strength of a Fragile Mind Kierkegaard and Psychiatric Ethics René Rosfort Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
11. Existential Ethics and Liberal Eugenics Kierkegaard and Habermas Mélissa Fox-Muraton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
12. Creatures of Habit On Second Nature, Habitual Behavior, and Ethical Life in Kierkegaard Jakub Marek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
13. Despair and Gender Identity Reading Kierkegaard in a Queer Light Oliver Norman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of philosophy, Kierkegaard studies, ethics, applied ethics, existential philosophy
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 280
Keywords: Ethics; existential philosophy; social media; morality

eBook

Published: October 26, 2020
ISBN: 9783110707137

Hardcover

Published: October 26, 2020
ISBN: 9783110705744