Journeys to Selfhood: Hegel and Kierkegaard (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

Taylor (humanities and religion, Williams College, Massachusetts) reconsiders the two philosophers based on the notion that all modern philosophy lies between the poles of their thought. He has added a new introduction to the 1980 original edition. Contents......Page 8 Returnings......Page 10 1. CONCLUDING PREFACE......Page 24 Beginning......Page 25 Journeys to Selfhood......Page 28 Hegel and Kierkegaard......Page 31 2. SPIRITLESSNESS OF THE AGE......Page 46 Society and Politics: Disintegrating Reich......Page 48 The Oppression of Objectivity: Religion and Self-alienation......Page 55 The Reflective Philosophy of Subjectivity......Page 64 “The Need of the Time”......Page 73 Society and Politics: Leveling Crowd......Page 75 The Oppression of Objectivity: Religion and Self-alienation......Page 84 The Reflective Philosophy of Objectivity......Page 87 "What the Age Needs”......Page 90 3. AESTHETIC EDUCATION......Page 94 The Drama of Experience......Page 102 Spectator and Spectacle......Page 106 Inwardizing: Recollection......Page 111 A Pseudonymous Production......Page 113 Poet and Poetry......Page 116 Inwardizing: Repetition......Page 122 4. CHRISTIANITY AND SELFHOOD......Page 128 The Fullness of Time: The Present......Page 130 Incarnation: Mediator......Page 137 Mediation......Page 140 The Fullness of Time: The Moment......Page 145 Incarnation. Absolute Paradox......Page 153 Contemporaneity......Page 157 5. STRUCTURES OF SPIRIT......Page 164 Identity, Difference, and Contradiction......Page 167 Spiritual Tensions......Page 177 Individual and Community......Page 183 Identity, Difference, and Contradiction......Page 185 Spiritual Tensions......Page 195 Individual or Community......Page 202 6. WAYFARING......Page 204 Stations of the Way......Page 206 Natural Selfhood......Page 209 Ethical Selfhood......Page 224 Religious Selfhood......Page 240 Journey’s End......Page 249 Stages on Life’s Way......Page 251 Natural Selfhood......Page 254 Ethical Selfhood......Page 264 Religious Selfhood......Page 275 Journey’s End......Page 284 7. PREFATORY CONCLUSION......Page 286 Odysseus and Abraham......Page 287 Ending......Page 294 Bibliography......Page 300 C......Page 314 D......Page 315 H......Page 316 L......Page 317 P......Page 318 R......Page 319 S......Page 320 Y......Page 321 "All modern philosophy", according to Mark C. Taylor, "is a footnote to Hegel". This endless footnote begins with Kierkegaard's critique of Hegel and extends through every major philosophical movement in the 20th century. Indeed, Hegel and Kierkegaard defines the poles between which all significant modern and post-modern and theology have been suspended. While theology in the recent decades has been characterized by a shift from the Kierkegaardianism of neo-orthodoxy to the Hegelianism of the death of God theology, philosophy has moved from the Hegelianism implicit in phenomenology and structuralism to a version of deconstruction and post-structuralism that is increasingly Kierkegaardian. In the years since its initial publication, the prescience of Taylor's classic study of Hegel and Kierkegaard has become increasingly evident. By establishing a creative dialogue between Hegel and Kierkegaard, Journeys to Selfhood both charts the historical background of philosophy in this century and identifies important issues that still merit serious discussion. At a time when critical debate has reached an impasse, Taylor's reconsideration of Hegel and Kierkegaard suggests new possibilities for constructive reflection. "As we move in the 21st century", Taylor concludes, "we must not only learn to think differently but must also rethink systems and structures that allow for integration and reconciliation without exclusion or repression. Though his answers that allow for integration and reconciliation without exclusion or repression. Though his answers are not completely adequate, as we take up these critical questions, Hegel once again emerges as a 'trustworthy guide.'" If, as Derrida insists, "wewill never be finished with the reading and rereading of Hegel", then it is time to reread Journeys to Selfhood as if for the first time". "In the years since its initial publication, the prescience of Taylor's classic study of Hegel and Kierkegaard has become increasingly evident. By establishing a creative dialogue between Hegel and Kierkegaard, Journeys to Selfhood both charts the historical background of philosophy in this century and identifies important issues that still merit serious discussion. At a time when critical debate has reached an impasse, Taylor's reconsideration of Hegel and Kierkegaard suggests new possibilities for constructive reflection."--BOOK JACKET. Originally published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1980. With new introd.