Introducing Existentialism by Richard Appignanesi
Author:Richard Appignanesi
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781848319837
Publisher: Icon Books
I CANNOT BEAR THE SHADOW OF ANOTHER THOUGHT …
EVERY STEP FORWARD IN REFLECTION IS STEP BACK FROM IMMEDIACY.
REFLECTION CANNOT SURMOUNT TO THE SHINING FORTH OF TRUTH.
I overhear the ironist Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55), predecessor of Dostoyevsky’s spiteful man from the underground.
Kierkegaard’s dramatis personae
The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard is not one but a crowd of pseudonymous authors bizarrely named: Constantine Constantius, Johannes de Silentio, Victor Eremita, and so on in plurality. Through them, the lively ambiguities of aesthetics, ethics and metaphysics are voiced as eccentric literature. His credit is to have turned philosophy into a problem of writing. Existentialism is totally indebted to him for the colourful categories, anxiety, dread, despair, absurdity, etc., etc., yea, “death” itself included. I listen to a story from Constantine Constantius’ book Repetition (1843) …
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