Kierkegaard and the Dialectics of Modernism by Jorgen Veisland
Product Specifications
- Title: Kierkegaard and the Dialectics of Modernism by Jorgen Veisland
- Author: Jorgen Veisland
- Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Binding: Hardback
- Art treatments & subjects
- No. of pages: 258
- Dimensions (approx. mm): 158 x 225 x 20
Product Description
Kierkegaard and the Dialectics of Modernism defines literary Modernism (represented by seven English American and Scandinavian authors) as not only a manifestation of man's separation and alienation from himself and society but also as an expression of man's struggle towards integration and liberation. In the texts this dialectic is reflected in the ironic interplay between the fragmentation of language and the poetic longing for wholeness. Kierkegaard's philosophy and Freud's psychology express a conflict comparable to the Modernist dilemma. The areas of philosophy psychology and literature when examined dialectically reveal a common response in different terms to a shared historical situation.