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- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
- Reviews
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Critique of Reason: Debates on Rationalism, Empiricism, and Skepticism
- Part II Faith and Revelation: Debates on Theism, Atheism, and Nihilism
- Part III Jacobi and the Revival of Socraticism: The Muenster Circle and Existentialism
- 9 Jacobi and Hemsterhuis
- 10 Dioscuri
- 11 Jacobi and Kierkegaard
- Part IV Jacobi’s Impact on Idealism and Romanticism
- Jacobi Sources
- Index
- References
11 - Jacobi and Kierkegaard
from Part III - Jacobi and the Revival of Socraticism: The Muenster Circle and Existentialism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 February 2023
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
- Reviews
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Critique of Reason: Debates on Rationalism, Empiricism, and Skepticism
- Part II Faith and Revelation: Debates on Theism, Atheism, and Nihilism
- Part III Jacobi and the Revival of Socraticism: The Muenster Circle and Existentialism
- 9 Jacobi and Hemsterhuis
- 10 Dioscuri
- 11 Jacobi and Kierkegaard
- Part IV Jacobi’s Impact on Idealism and Romanticism
- Jacobi Sources
- Index
- References
Summary
Jacobi’s influence on the founder of so-called existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard, has rarely been examined. This chapter explores Kierkegaard’s critical and somewhat polemical discussion of Jacobi’s notion of the “leap” in Concluding Unscientific Postscript, which not only shows that Kierkegaard was acquainted with Jacobi’s major work, Concerning the Doctrine of Spinoza but how it shaped Kierkegaard’s own particular development of the salto mortale.
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- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the EnlightenmentReligion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity, pp. 200 - 224Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023