Titre du document / Document title

"Interest" in Kierkegaard's Structure of Consciousness

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

STOKES Patrick ⁽¹⁾ ;

Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)

⁽¹⁾ Danish Research Council for the Humanities at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen University, DANEMARK

Résumé / Abstract

Kierkegaard's identification of "consciousness" with "interest" (interesse) in his unfinished work Johannes Climacus adds a distinctive dimension to his phenomenology of subjectivity. Commentators, however, have largely identified interesse with lidenskab ("passion"), a conflation I argue to be mistaken, or have otherwise failed to note the structural implications of interesse for Kierkegaard's account of cognition. I draw out these implications and argue that the Climacan account of interest as the experience of finding ourselves in-between ideality and reality implies, in the context of Kierkegaard's trichotomous ontology of consciousness, a form of non-thetic self-referentiality built into cognition itself. This self-referentiality also has the intriguing implication of making consciousness itself inherently teleological.

Revue / Journal Title

International philosophical quarterly    ISSN  0019-0365 

Source / Source

2008, vol. 48, n^o192, pp. 437-458 [22 page(s) (article)]

Langue / Language

Anglais

Editeur / Publisher

Fordham University, Foundation for International Philosophical Exchange, New York, NY, ETATS-UNIS  (1961) (Revue)

Mots-clés anglais / English Keywords

Kierkegaard (S.) ; Century 19 ; Philosophy history ;

Mots-clés français / French Keywords

Kierkegaard (S.) ; Siècle 19 ; Histoire de la philosophie ;

Localisation / Location

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 25611, 35400018467846.0020