RT Article
T1 Kierkegaard’s Existential Sacrifice
JF Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
VO 8
IS 2
SP 354
OP 376
A1 Vaškovic, Petr
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1826654828
AB Abstract This paper aims to analyze the notions of sacrifice and existential entrapment in the early writings of Søren Kierkegaard. I look at two female characters that appear in Kierkegaard’s Either/Or – Marie Beaumarchais and Donna Elvira – and I argue that an encounter with a deceptive individual (a seducer) forced these two women to sacrifice their capacity for existential-spiritual growth. Donna Elvira and Marie Beaumarchais remain trapped – as Kierkegaard frames it – within the aesthetic existential sphere. The goal of my paper is twofold: first, I describe in detail the nature of their sacrifice and the reasons for their existential entrapment, and, secondly, I determine whether Kierkegaard believes this to be an existential affliction that affects exclusively women, i.e., whether it is gendered or not.
K1 reflective sorrow
K1 Seduction
K1 Sacrifice
K1 Existential Philosophy
K1 Either/Or
K1 Kierkegaard
DO 10.30965/23642807-bja10053