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Kierkegaard and the Feminine Self

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Leslie A. Howe
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Abstract

Kierkegaard shows two contrary attitudes to woman and the feminine: misogyny and celebration. The Kierkegaardian structure of selfhood, because combined with a hierarchical assumption about the relative value of certain human characteristics, and their identification as male or female, argues that woman is a lesser self. Consequently, the claim that the Kierkegaardian ideal of selfhood is androgynist is rejected, though it is the latter assumptions alone that force this conclusion.

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Embodying Subjectivities
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Hypatia , Volume 9 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion , Fall 1994 , pp. 131 - 157
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Copyright © 1994 by Hypatia, Inc.

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