Thèse soutenue

Possibilité et réalité : Ou bien / ou bien de Søren Kierkegaard et l'Homme sans qualités de Robert Musil

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Auteur / Autrice : Sebastian Hüsch
Direction : Kurt RöttgersJean-Paul Larthomas
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Philosophie
Date : Soutenance en 2004
Etablissement(s) : FernUniversität Hagen en cotutelle avec Hagen

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An unbiased reading of Kierkegaard's Either – Or has to come to the conclusion that what the reader has in hand is not a philosophical text but first and foremost a romantic novel. This study asks the question of how an interpretation has to change when Either – Or is read in respect to this formal aspect as much as of the content, or in considering this formal aspect as part of the content, a part of its meaning. The confrontation with The Man Without Qualities will bring to light that the choice of the form of novel rather than that of traditional philosophical treaties can be understood as a philosophical choice, based on reflections on communicability. Both, Kierkegaard and Musil, are dealing with the question of how to live, of “possibilities of existence” and it will become clear that the medium of “fiction”, the medium of the literary text is extraordinarily capable of exemplifying what it really means to have “possibilities”.