Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: A Contemporary Anthropological Reading

  • José Luis Cañas Fernández
Keywords: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Anthropology, Transcendence-relation, Immanence-immediacy, Death-life, Despair-hope

Abstract

This is a comparative study of antagonistic anthropological models of the personal self, stemming from the most influential authors that pioneered in Contemporary Philosophy: Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. Within the paradigm of the Danish thinker we find the need of the personal self to relate to God, going through different stages of life, starting with the inferior “aesthetic” to a more advanced “ethical –religious” stage. In the vision of the German philosopher we find the essence of the human being in the immediate which belongs to the exalting of life beyond limits and the search for autonomous pleasure, life experiences that end up turning against life itself.

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Published
2008-10-10
How to Cite
Cañas Fernández J. L. (2008). Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: A Contemporary Anthropological Reading. Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 25, 371-406. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ASHF/article/view/ASHF0808110371A
Issue
Vol. 25 (2008)
Section
Estudios

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