Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Feddon, Dustin R.
Author's Email Address	dustinrfeddon@yahoo.com
URN	etd-05062004-141316
Title	The Other Heifer
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	Religion, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title David Kangas Committee Chair Martin Kavka Committee Member Sumner Twiss Committee Member
Keywords	Kierkegaard Hamann Socrates Concept of Irony Religion Subjectivity
Date of Defense	2004-04-07
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This thesis will work to illuminate the significant similarities between Johann Georg Hamann and Søren Kierkegaard; a relationship that is often referred but rarely attended to. The lines of correspondence are both hidden and pronounced in their early work—Hamann in Socratic Memorabilia and Kierkegaard in the Concept of Irony. Peculiarly, both Hamann and Kierkegaard employ the ambiguous figure of Socrates in order to impede the rush of philosophy towards absolute knowledge. This is to say that the two writers discern a move towards a world ordering morality that tramples over the perspective of the subject. Hamann and Kierkegaard will counter this move towards the grounding of philosophy into a universal system by re-casting Socrates in an ambiguous light; a mediating figure strung between ideality and actuality. Hamann and Kierkegaard both use Socrates in order to open religious dimensions in the currents of modern philosophy. Hamann and Kierkegaard share common foundations (Lutheranism), common objectives (elevating experience over knowledge), and common vehicles in their argumentation (Socrates and Socratic ignorance).
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