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Kierkegaard's Mirrors : Interest, Self and Moral Vision

Material from chapters 6-8 was published in 2006 and 2007, but the chapters have been substantially revised since in the light of research conducted since 1 Jan 2008. The book’s overall thesis also puts the earlier material into a new and broader philosophical context. At least 83% of the book is completely new for this submission (approx. 74,000 words).

This book is the outcome of an extensive research effort and develops a new phenomenological interpretation of what Kierkegaard calls ‘interest’: a self-reflexive mode of thought, vision and imagination that plays a central role in moral experience. Tracing this concept across Kierkegaard’s work, it investigates such topics as consciousness, the ontology of selfhood, ethical imagination, admiration and imitation, seeing the other, metaphors of self-recognition and mirroring, our need for transcendent meaning, and the relationship between scholarship and subjective knowledge. In these ways, at least the first two conditions in Panel Criteria and Working Methods p. 86, para 64, are met.