The author examines in detail those writings of Kierkegaard in which he undertook complex negotiations with the threat—and also the promise—of "chatter." One effect of these negotiations is revealed as an insistence on "existence," which alone could appear as a counterweight to the lightness and insubstantiality of mere language. The author's readings of both well-known and neglected works do not simply show how indirect communication affects this insistence on "existence"; they also show how the negation of direct communication (which in genderal makes reading necessary) undoes the distinctions through which weighty "existence" and insubstantial "chatter" are set apart.
The author examines in detail those writings of Kierkegaard in which he undertook complex negotiations with the threat—and also the promise—of "chatter." One effect of these negotiations is revealed as an insistence on "existence," which alone could appear as a counterweight to the lightness and insubstantiality of mere language. The author's readings of both well-known and neglected works do not simply show how indirect communication affects this insistence on "existence"; they also show how the negation of direct communication (which in genderal makes reading necessary) undoes the distinctions through which weighty "existence" and insubstantial "chatter" are set apart.
"Chatter": Language and History in Kierkegaard
328"Chatter": Language and History in Kierkegaard
328Hardcover(1)
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780804722070 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
Publication date: | 12/01/1993 |
Series: | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Series |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 328 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |