Sylabus
February 18
Introduction - The Corpus of Kierkegaard.
Reading:
On My Work as an Author, pp. 449-454.
February 25
Ontology and the supposedly non-ontological work of the "religious author" Kierkegaard.
Reading:
Repetition, pp. 102-115.
March 3
The notion of existence. Traditional conceptions of existence. Heidegger's critique.
Reading:
Fear and Trembling, pp. 93-101.
March 10
Bonus Lecture, On Kierkegaard's Obsession with the name Johannes
March 17
Spirit and synthesis. Essentialist conceptions of Kierkegaard's anthropology.
Reading:
The Sickness Unto Death, pp. 351-372.
March 24
Temporal synthesis. Spirit and the moment.
Reading:
Concept of Anxiety, pp. 138-155.
March 31
Critique of the conception of synthesis and existence in secondary sources.
Reading:
Diapsalmata, pp. 38-46.
April 7
Bonus Lecture, Kierkegaard and Kafka, or the Eternal Land-Surveyor
April 14
Reading Week.
April 21
Phenomenological interpretation of the synthesis.
Reading:
Journal entry Gilleleie August 1, 1835, pp. 7-12.
April 28
Imagination, reflection, and the origin of the synthesis.
Reading:
Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est, pp. 126-137.
May 5
Chórismos. Groundlessness, absence of origin, and a new conception of existence.
Reading:
Philosophical Fragments, pp. 117-125.
May 12
Kierkegaard's ontology.
Reading:
Concluding Unscientific Postscript, pp. 187-241.
May 17
Test.
Anotace
V tomto přednáškovém kurzu se posluchači seznámí s dánským filosofem, teologem, spisovatelem a kritikem moderní doby, S. Kierkegaardem.
Cílem kurzu je představit klíčové představy, jimiž Kierkegaard ovlivnil filosofické myšlení: pojetí člověka jako syntézy, pojem existence, existenciální nálady, kritika současnosti, teorie stádií existence a další.