Various Modernities and Its Discontents: A Sociological Analysis on Kierkegaard’s Modes of Existences

This article explores Kierkegaard’s modes of existences through a sociological framework. Kierkegaard’s philosophical framework of typifying the individual’s existential modes of living, aesthete, ethical and religious has often challenged the tenets of modern society. The struggle to find the authe...

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Auteur principal: Kurniawan, Kevin Nobel (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: CEEOL [2020]
Dans: Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
Année: 2020, Volume: 19, Numéro: 56, Pages: 78-95
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855, Stadier paa livets vei / Social contact / Context
Classifications IxTheo:AB Philosophie de la religion
AD Sociologie des religions
VA Philosophie
ZB Sociologie
Sujets non-standardisés:B Liquid Modernity
B Modernity
B Kierkegaard
B Aesthete Stage
B Ethical Stage
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Résumé:This article explores Kierkegaard’s modes of existences through a sociological framework. Kierkegaard’s philosophical framework of typifying the individual’s existential modes of living, aesthete, ethical and religious has often challenged the tenets of modern society. The struggle to find the authentic self is not separated from the sociological context in which the individual is positioned within the society. The author attempts to trace how societal structure is corelated with the individual experience by relating Kierkegaard’s individual to societal analysis. As the role of ideology and social structure reinforced the notion of impersonal social interactions, the individual would experience different form of despair: the ethical individual experience modern form of discontents, the aesthete individual experience the postmodern form of alienation. The discontents of society, both in the modern or liquid modern forms, is later reflected within the individual’s existential despair.
ISSN:1583-0039
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religions and ideologies