TY - BOOK ID - 85676018 TI - Kierkegaard and philosophical eros : between ironic reflection and aesthetic meaning PY - 2022 SN - 9781350133716 135013371X 9781350203938 9781350133723 9781350133730 PB - London Bloomsbury Academic DB - UniCat KW - Erōs (The Greek word) KW - Aesthetics KW - Kierkegaard, Søren, KW - Kierkegaard, Søren, - 1813-1855 KW - Affective and dynamic functions KW - Kierkegaard, Søren UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85676018 AB - "In an original argument, Ulrika Carlsson grasps hold of the figure of Eros that haunts Søren Kierkegaard's The Concept of Irony, and for the first time, uses it as a key to interpret both that text and the philosopher's second book, Either/Or. In an illuminating analysis, Carlsson argues that Kierkegaard adopts Plato's idea of Eros as the fundamental force that drives humans in all their pursuits and that, for him, every existential stance-every way of living and relating to the outside world-is at heart a way of loving"-- ER -