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Repetition means getting our cognitive and moral bearings not through prompted remembering, but quite unexpectedly as a gift from the unknown, as a revelation from the future. Repetition is epiphany that sometimes grants the old again, as new, and sometimes grants something radically new.
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At times Repetition reads like a short novel, full of puzzles and twists of fate. At other times it reads like a technical disquisition on a quasi-metaphysical concept called ‘repetition’. In the first half of the book Kierkegaard’s narrator, Constantine Constantius, introduces the contrast between ‘repetition’ and the ancient Platonic concept of recollection. Plato’s idea is that we already possess the rudiments of all the knowledge we need. It is part of the inherited structure of our minds. Once we begin thinking, we have a glimmer of the ideas that 2 plus 2 equal 4, and that we should always do what is good, for instance. All we have to do is remember these truths, and a teacher like Socrates can prompt us. The royal road to knowledge, for Plato, is through prompted remembering or recollection. But Constantine says that the modern age needs a new concept, and that he will provide it. He calls the alternative royal road to insight ‘repetition’. Repetition means getting our cognitive and moral bearings not through prompted remembering, but quite unexpectedly as a gift from the unknown, as a revelation from the future. Repetition is epiphany that sometimes grants the old again, as new, and sometimes grants something radically new.
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Repetition means getting our cognitive and moral bearings not through prompted remembering, but quite unexpectedly as a gift from the unknown, as a revelation from the future. Repetition is epiphany that sometimes grants the old again, as new, and sometimes grants something radically new. |
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A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Søren Kierkegaard's radical and comprehensive analysis of human nature in a spectrum of possibilities of existence. Present here is a remarkable combination of the insight of the poet and the contemplation of the philosopher. In The Sickness unto Death, Kierkegaard moves beyond anxiety on the mental-emotional level to the spiritual level, where--in contact with the eternal--anxiety becomes despair. Both anxiety and despair reflect the misrelation that arises in the self when the elements of the synthesis--the infinite and the finite--do not come into proper relation to each other. Despair is a deeper expression for anxiety and is a mark of the eternal, which is intended to penetrate temporal existence. |
ISBN |
978-977-384-277-5 | 978-977-384-317-4 | 978-977-384-269-4 | 978-977-384-283-5 |
Author |
Soren Kierkegaard | Alice Miller | Friedrich Hegel | Soren Kierkegaard |
Translator |
Mejahed Abdelmeaim mejahed | Nekles Neseim | Mejahed Abdelmeaim mejahed | Mejahed Abdelmeaim mejahed |
Editor |
Mohamed H. A. Ghoneam | Mohamed H. A. Ghoneam | ||
Original Language |
English | German | English | English |
Language |
Arabic (Translated) | Arabic (Translated) | Arabic (Translated) | Arabic (Translated) |
Series |
Alice Miller | |||
Format |
Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback |
Publishing House |
Maktabet Dar El Kalema Publishing House | Maktabet Dar El Kalema Publishing House | Maktabet Dar El Kalema Publishing House | Maktabet Dar El Kalema Publishing House |
Number of Pages |
274 | 384 pages | 220 | 230 pages |
Product Dimensions |
21.2×12.2×1.5 | 22*15*1.5 cm | 20×12.5×1.3 cm | 22×11.2×1.3 cm. |
Product Weight |
284 gm | 246 gm | 242gm | 262 gm |
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