Beschreibung:
Alison Assiter is Professor of Feminist Theory at the University of the West of England. She is the author of Kierkegaard, Metaphysics and Political Theory (2008).
A highly original rereading of Kierkegaard through the concept of birthing, highlighting a speculative hypothesis about the nature of Being in Kierkegaard's work.
Abbreviations / Introduction / 1. Contingent and Chaotic Reality / 2. A Challenge to Chaos / 3. Kant, Freedom and Evil / 4. Kierkegaard and Schelling on Process / 5. The Concept of Anxiety and Kant / 6. Kierkegaard on Women / 7. Metaphors of Birth in Kierkegaard / 8. More on Birthing / 9. Nature as a Body that can Birth / 10. The Age of Revolution and the Present Age / Conclusion / Bibliography / Index