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Abstract
Kierkegaard's authorship is saturated with gender biases. And yet, the ossified conceptions of gender that we find in Kierkegaard's writings are destabilized by his ethical ideal of humanity as a radical equality. This paper will examine the argument that the sacrifice of gender plays a vital function in Kierkegaard's account of human selfhood. Selfhood is not possible without sacrifice. To exist as a human self is to sacrifice one's own conceptions of the existential differences that make each and every one of us the unique individual that we are. We are gendered beings, and we cannot escape the traumatic ambiguity of intimacy and alienation endemic to our gendered existence. We have to sacrifice our gendered conceptions of being human in light of a demand for a radical equality beyond gender differences. This sacrifice of gender is an ethical demand that we can never fulfill because of our gendered existence.

This article questions the methodological conflation at work in Karen Barad's agential realism. Barad's immense appeal is first explained against the tense background of the nature/culture antagonism in the twentieth century. Then, by using some of the penetrating observations of a seventeen-century philosopher, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Barad's "ethico-onto-epistem-ology" is examined and subsequently criticized for disregarding the persistence of subjectivity, dissolving the ambivalence of the bodily matter(s), and neglecting the need for concrete individuality in ethics.

"Arne Grøn's reading of Søren Kierkegaard's authorship revolves around existential challenges of human identity. The 35 essays that constitute this book are written over three decades and are characterized by combining careful attention to the augmentative detail of Kierkegaard's text with a constant focus on issues in contemporary philosophy. Contrary to many approaches to Kierkegaard's authorship, Grøn does not read Kierkegaard in opposition to Hegel. The work of the Danish thinker is read as a critical development of Hegelian phenomenology with particular attention to existential aspects of human experience. Anxiety and despair are the primary existential phenomena that Kierkegaard examines throughout his authorship, and Grøn uses these negative phenomena to argue for the basically ethical aim of Kierkegaard's work. In Grøn's reading, Kierkegaard conceives human selfhood not merely as relational, but also a process of becoming the self that one is through the otherness of self-experience, that is, the body, the world, other people, and God. This book should be of interest to philosophers, theologians, literary studies scholars, and anyone with an interest not only in Kierkegaard, but also in human identity."--

Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 1997 gilt die Reihe Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series (KSMS) als massgebendes Forum für herausragende Monographien aus dem gesamten Bereich der Kierkegaard-Forschung. Sie bietet Raum für die verschiedenen Forschungstraditionen zu Kierkegaard, die solchermassen in einen konstruktiven Dialog treten. Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series wird im Auftrag des Soren Kierkegaard Forschungszentrums (Universität Kopenhagen) herausgegeben.Potential authors should consult the Submission guidelines.All submissions will be blindly refereed by established scholars in the field. Only high-quality manuscripts will be accepted for publication. Potential authors should be prepared to make changes to their texts based on the comments received by the referees.Arne Gron's reading of Soren Kierkegaard's authorship revolves around existential challenges of human identity. The 35 essays that constitute this book are written over three decades and are characterized by combining careful attention to the augmentative detail of Kierkegaard's text with a constant focus on issues in contemporary philosophy. Contrary to many approaches to Kierkegaard's authorship, Gron does not read Kierkegaard in opposition to Hegel. The work of the Danish thinker is read as a critical development of Hegelian phenomenology with particular attention to existential aspects of human experience. Anxiety and despair are the primary existential phenomena that Kierkegaard examines throughout his authorship, and Gron uses these negative phenomena to argue for the basically ethical aim of Kierkegaard's work. In Gron's reading, Kierkegaard conceives human selfhood not merely as relational, but also a process of becoming the self that one is through the otherness of self-experience, that is, the body, the world, other people, and God. This book should be of interest to philosophers, theologians, literary studies scholars, and anyone with an interest not only in Kierkegaard, but also in human identity