Kierkegaard's Instant: On Beginnings

by David J. Kangas

In Kierkegaard's Instant, David J. Kangas reads Kierkegaard to reveal his radical thinking about temporality. For Kierkegaard, the instant of becoming, in which everything changes in the blink of an eye, eludes recollection and anticipation. It constitutes a beginning always already at work. As Kangas shows, Kierkegaard's retrieval of the sudden quality of temporality allows him to stage a deep critique of the idealist projects of Fichte, Schelling,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253348595
• ISBN13: 9780253348593
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher