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Poor Paris: Kierkegaard's Critique of the Spectacular City (Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series, 2) [Hardcover]

George Pattison (Author)

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ISBN-10: 3110163888 | ISBN-13: 978-3110163889 | Publication Date: November 1998

This text is an exposition of and commentary on Kierkegaard's critical view of the modern city of Paris.

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Hardcover: 152 pages
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc (November 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3110163888
ISBN-13: 978-3110163889
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,851,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The aim of this study is to explore the representation of the city in Kierkegaard's writings and its motive is to illuminate Kierkegaard's critical response to the condition of modernity. Read the first page

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anxious sublime, modern urbanity, spectacular city, inner emigration

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Deer Park, Vor Frue Kirke, Prosaiske Skrifter, Theatre Royal, Frater Taciturnus, Assessor Wilhelm, Johannes Climacus, Soren Kierkegaard, The Seducer's Diary, Madame Gyllembourg, New York, Bishop Mynster, Jutland Heath, William Afham, God's House, Life's Way, Andrew Hamilton, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Danish Isles, Frederiksberg Gardens, Johannes the Seducer, Kierkegaard's Copenhagen, Two Ages, Emergence of the Modern City, Heiberg Poetiske Skrifter

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This book cites 39 books:

Johannes Climacus by S�ren Kierkegaard on 8 pages
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin (Kierkegaard's Writings, VIII) (v. 8) by Soren Kierkegaard on 4 pages
Letters and documents : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 25 by Soren Kierkegaard on page 42, page 75, and Back Matter
The Point of View : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 22 by Soren Kierkegaard on page 11, page 17, and Back Matter
Fear and Trembling (Penguin Classics) by Soren Kierkegaard on page 73, page 74, and Back Matter

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