The Kirkegaardian “Doctrine” of Love
Chevallier, Philippe
The Kirkegaardian “Doctrine” of Love - 2001.
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Beginning with Adorno’s critic on the Kierkegaardian idea of love, based on Les œuvres de l’amour (1847), the reflection of a “bourgeois idealism, indifferent to concrete realities,” this article investigates the “doctrine” of the Danish master. Indeed, there are other voices here than that of a solitary subjectivity. There is the voice of a virulent critic of the society of that time, which lost all notions of gratuity, where the individual was abandoned to the masses, and where relation was no more than information. If Kierkegaard was an unrelenting judge of the revolutionary movements that agitated Denmark at that time, it was not only as a more or less sour witness of his epoch, but was in the name of a lucidity of which Adorno saw the pertinence of a positive modernity.
The Kirkegaardian “Doctrine” of Love - 2001.
5
Beginning with Adorno’s critic on the Kierkegaardian idea of love, based on Les œuvres de l’amour (1847), the reflection of a “bourgeois idealism, indifferent to concrete realities,” this article investigates the “doctrine” of the Danish master. Indeed, there are other voices here than that of a solitary subjectivity. There is the voice of a virulent critic of the society of that time, which lost all notions of gratuity, where the individual was abandoned to the masses, and where relation was no more than information. If Kierkegaard was an unrelenting judge of the revolutionary movements that agitated Denmark at that time, it was not only as a more or less sour witness of his epoch, but was in the name of a lucidity of which Adorno saw the pertinence of a positive modernity.
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