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dc.contributor.authorKaftanski, Wojciech
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-07T04:04:11Z
dc.date.available2021-10-07T04:04:11Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.submitted2021-10-06T13:40:35Z
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50846
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72140
dc.description.abstract“Chapter 6” systematizes and analyzes Kierkegaard’s insightful remarks on human affectivity in relation to moral emotions, body, contagion, and collectivity. Following a brief outline of the conceptualization of affects and human affectivity from Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Tomkins, and Massumi, the first part zooms in on empathy and sympathy in two important precursors of Kierkegaard, namely David Hume and Adam Smith. The second part argues for Kierkegaard’s distinctively affective reading of admiration, which I locate in its being fundamentally linked with other emotions such as envy, but also in its being oriented toward the mediocre and base, having a limited motivational capacity, and being highly contagious. Affective admiration is then related to the contemporary discussion on moral exemplars, posing a challenge to the view of the epistemological and moral trustworthiness of admiration in moral exemplarity espoused primarily by Linda Zagzebski. The third part centers on the affective character of Kierkegaard’s crowd psychology. Therein I examine his critical remarks on human collectivity, focusing on such key concepts from his social and political philosophy as “crowd” and “the public.” Reading his philosophy alongside two French theorists of mass society, Gabriel Tarde and René Girard, I draw out Kierkegaard’s great interest in such mimetic terms as magnetism, fascination, somnambulism, scapegoating, and violence.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.otherPhilosophy, Kierkegaard, 19th century philosophy, history of philosophy, aesthetics, religion and philosophy
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought::QDHR Western philosophy from c 1800
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAB Philosophy of religion
dc.titleChapter 6 Affect, Admiration, Crowd
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003142768-7
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oapen.relation.isPartOfBookKierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity
oapen.relation.isbn9780367695590
oapen.relation.isbn9780367696658
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages40
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