Erotic Love: Reading Kierkegaard with and without Marion
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Erotic Love : Reading Kierkegaard with and without Marion. / Søltoft, Pia.
In: Dialog, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2011, p. 37-46.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Erotic Love
T2 - Reading Kierkegaard with and without Marion
AU - Søltoft, Pia
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The claim of this article is that in Søren Kierkegaard's notion of love as a basic urge in every human being we find a special dialectic between lack and surplus, between need-love and gift-love. Through a comparison with Jean-Luc Marion's description of erotic love in The Erotic Phenomenon, I demonstrate that Kierkegaard's insistence that love is greater than everything and therefore prior to both existence and knowledge seems, on the one hand, to point in the direction of a metaphysical anchoring of love, which would be foreign to Marion. But at the same time, Kierkegaard, like Marion, stresses that we have a universal, human experience of love, which is anchored bodily and sensed phenomenally. This duality points to the fact that Kierkegaard had a much more nuanced notion of love than that simple distinction between eros and agape that Anders Nygren invented.
AB - The claim of this article is that in Søren Kierkegaard's notion of love as a basic urge in every human being we find a special dialectic between lack and surplus, between need-love and gift-love. Through a comparison with Jean-Luc Marion's description of erotic love in The Erotic Phenomenon, I demonstrate that Kierkegaard's insistence that love is greater than everything and therefore prior to both existence and knowledge seems, on the one hand, to point in the direction of a metaphysical anchoring of love, which would be foreign to Marion. But at the same time, Kierkegaard, like Marion, stresses that we have a universal, human experience of love, which is anchored bodily and sensed phenomenally. This duality points to the fact that Kierkegaard had a much more nuanced notion of love than that simple distinction between eros and agape that Anders Nygren invented.
KW - Faculty of Theology
KW - Kierkegaard
KW - Erotic love
KW - Marion
KW - Phenomenology
U2 - 10.1111/j.1540-6385.2010.00579.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1540-6385.2010.00579.x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 50
SP - 37
EP - 46
JO - Dialog
JF - Dialog
SN - 0012-2033
IS - 1
ER -
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