{"product_id":"kierkegaards-concept-of-the-interesting-9781666962475","title":"Kierkegaards Concept of the Interesting","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume one of Søren Kierkegaard's \u003ci\u003eEither\/Or \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the crisis of the modern secular voidwith its attendant doubt, ennui, and alienationfrom the first-person perspective of an aesthete who, lacking any epistemic or moral foundations, grows increasingly obsessed with what he calls the interesting. In a close explication of the history of that aesthetic concept and a thorough exegesis of this volume, \u003ci\u003eKierkegaard's Concept of the Interesting: The Aesthetic Gulf Voracious Hermeneutics in \u003c\/i\u003eEither\/Or I explores the aesthete's views on beauty, opera and music, tragedy and comedy, time, unhappiness, the difference between suffering and pain, boredom, eroticism, deception, and seduction, along with the ways in which these precipitate the ambition for increasingly \u003ci\u003einteresting \u003c\/i\u003eexperiences. In this examination, Anthony Eagan thoroughly reveals Kierkegaard's own perspective on how an exclusively aesthetic attitude can lead to an ever-more voracious tendency to interpret the world in a private, self-defeating, and unscrupulous fashionone arising from and ultimately leading to moral solipsism and despair. This book develops a comprehensive understanding of \u003ci\u003eEither\/Or \u003c\/i\u003eI that is crucial for understanding the rest of Kierkegaard's authorship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042050834775,"sku":"9781666962475","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666962475.jpg?v=1750952799","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kierkegaards-concept-of-the-interesting-9781666962475","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}