Does Kierkegaard’s Rewritten Parable of the Good Samaritan Leave the World to the Devil? Kierkegaard and Adorno on What it Means to Love one’s Neighbor in the Modern World
This article critically examines and discusses the charge, raised by Adorno in his essay on Works of Love , that Kierkegaard’s rewriting of the Gospel story of the good Samaritan reduces neighbor love to abstract inwardness. It has been somewhat ignored in the reception of Adorno’s text that he also...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
[2020]
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Kierkegaard studies. Yearbook
Year: 2020, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 221-240 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NCB Personal ethics NCE Business ethics |
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| Summary: | This article critically examines and discusses the charge, raised by Adorno in his essay on Works of Love , that Kierkegaard’s rewriting of the Gospel story of the good Samaritan reduces neighbor love to abstract inwardness. It has been somewhat ignored in the reception of Adorno’s text that he also praises Kierkegaard as a critic of his time. I explore Adorno’s appreciation of this dimension in Works of Love and seek to develop it further by examining Kierkegaard’s sharp eye for discovering how the inhumanity of the slavery in the past persists in more hidden and subtle ways in the modern world dominated by the instrumental rationality of economics. |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9792 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kierkegaard studies. Yearbook
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/kierke-2020-0010 |