Utilstrækkeligt enestående: En kierkegaardsk diagnose af diagnosesamfundet

Research output: Book/ReportPh.D. thesis

Standard

Utilstrækkeligt enestående : En kierkegaardsk diagnose af diagnosesamfundet. / Hjortkjær, Christian.

København : Publikationer fra Det teologiske Fakultet, 2016. 252 p.

Research output: Book/ReportPh.D. thesis

Harvard

Hjortkjær, C 2016, Utilstrækkeligt enestående: En kierkegaardsk diagnose af diagnosesamfundet. vol. 69, Publikationer fra Det teologiske Fakultet, København.

APA

Hjortkjær, C. (2016). Utilstrækkeligt enestående: En kierkegaardsk diagnose af diagnosesamfundet. Publikationer fra Det teologiske Fakultet.

Vancouver

Hjortkjær C. Utilstrækkeligt enestående: En kierkegaardsk diagnose af diagnosesamfundet. København: Publikationer fra Det teologiske Fakultet, 2016. 252 p.

Author

Hjortkjær, Christian. / Utilstrækkeligt enestående : En kierkegaardsk diagnose af diagnosesamfundet. København : Publikationer fra Det teologiske Fakultet, 2016. 252 p.

Bibtex

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abstract = "ABSTRACTINSUFFICIENTLY OUTSTANDING - A KIERKEGAARDIAN DIAGNOSIS OF THE DIAGNOSTIC SOCIETYThis dissertation is, as the subtitle states, a Kierkegaardian diagnosis of thediagnostic society. The choice of subject is not diagnoses or existence, but theway in which the single individual relates to both of them and how they thusentangle. With the aid of critical theory, social psychology, and theologicalcritique of religion, the dissertation investigates how it affects us that in thepresent time the diagnosis offers itself to every one of us, in the sense that wecan chose to see ourselves, and interpret our lives, through the {\textquoteleft}eyes{\textquoteright} of thediagnostic manual.The methodological approach is fundamentally Kierkegaardian. In orderto preserve the complexity of the subject, the dissertation presents four paralleldiagnoses (in four chapters) with an outset in four Kierkegaardian pseudonyms,each of which adopt an independent position:1. The climacian diagnosis brings a charge against society. With the aid ofcritical theory, it is claimed that the demand to be outstanding has become afounding existential premise of our time (out-standing, both in the sense ofbeing exceptional and in the sense of being independent of others, that is, bystanding out – by oneself). As such it is the normative demands of authenticityand autonomy which bring us to the verge of exhaustion and depression.The fact that the feeling of insufficiency is so dominant today is due to the painfulexperience that we are not able to live up to the somewhat diffuse ideal ofbeing sufficiently outstanding.2. The anti-climacian diagnosis shifts the perspective to the self. Here, thebasic premise is that there is no such thing as existential health, only a kind ofdespair and shame, which the self cannot bypass. It is not so much the externaldemand as the reaction of the self which causes the self to despair and loseitself in downward moving spirals of shame and enclosed reserve.3. The haufniencian diagnosis shifts the perspective to the mind. Here, theKierkegaardian pseudonyms are used as actual diagnosticians in an attempt tobreak down the simplification, which holds that anxiety be either a condition oran illness from which we must be cured. At the same time, the haufniencian diagnosis provides – parallel to Haufniensis{\textquoteright} revolt against the doctrine oforiginal sin – a revolt against the doctrine of diagnoses: that it is the sickness in me,which acts on behalf of me.4. The fourth diagnosis is distinguished from the former three by being fundamentallyupbuilding. Here, it is neither the diagnosis nor the diagnosed thatare addressed – but the neighbor. The unfulfillable demand is now directed toeach one of us and it demands that we help the other human being to standby himself – and that we should do so by seeing him as more than what thediagnosis is able to see.The four diagnoses each adopt an independent position, but they are tobe read dialectically as one diagnosis – in four perspectives. This Kierkegaardiandiagnosis does not provide an alternative to the diagnoses, but a critical andpersistent corrective. It provides a manner of thinking, which may be determined{\textquoteleft}applied Kierkegaard{\textquoteright}.",
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N2 - ABSTRACTINSUFFICIENTLY OUTSTANDING - A KIERKEGAARDIAN DIAGNOSIS OF THE DIAGNOSTIC SOCIETYThis dissertation is, as the subtitle states, a Kierkegaardian diagnosis of thediagnostic society. The choice of subject is not diagnoses or existence, but theway in which the single individual relates to both of them and how they thusentangle. With the aid of critical theory, social psychology, and theologicalcritique of religion, the dissertation investigates how it affects us that in thepresent time the diagnosis offers itself to every one of us, in the sense that wecan chose to see ourselves, and interpret our lives, through the ‘eyes’ of thediagnostic manual.The methodological approach is fundamentally Kierkegaardian. In orderto preserve the complexity of the subject, the dissertation presents four paralleldiagnoses (in four chapters) with an outset in four Kierkegaardian pseudonyms,each of which adopt an independent position:1. The climacian diagnosis brings a charge against society. With the aid ofcritical theory, it is claimed that the demand to be outstanding has become afounding existential premise of our time (out-standing, both in the sense ofbeing exceptional and in the sense of being independent of others, that is, bystanding out – by oneself). As such it is the normative demands of authenticityand autonomy which bring us to the verge of exhaustion and depression.The fact that the feeling of insufficiency is so dominant today is due to the painfulexperience that we are not able to live up to the somewhat diffuse ideal ofbeing sufficiently outstanding.2. The anti-climacian diagnosis shifts the perspective to the self. Here, thebasic premise is that there is no such thing as existential health, only a kind ofdespair and shame, which the self cannot bypass. It is not so much the externaldemand as the reaction of the self which causes the self to despair and loseitself in downward moving spirals of shame and enclosed reserve.3. The haufniencian diagnosis shifts the perspective to the mind. Here, theKierkegaardian pseudonyms are used as actual diagnosticians in an attempt tobreak down the simplification, which holds that anxiety be either a condition oran illness from which we must be cured. At the same time, the haufniencian diagnosis provides – parallel to Haufniensis’ revolt against the doctrine oforiginal sin – a revolt against the doctrine of diagnoses: that it is the sickness in me,which acts on behalf of me.4. The fourth diagnosis is distinguished from the former three by being fundamentallyupbuilding. Here, it is neither the diagnosis nor the diagnosed thatare addressed – but the neighbor. The unfulfillable demand is now directed toeach one of us and it demands that we help the other human being to standby himself – and that we should do so by seeing him as more than what thediagnosis is able to see.The four diagnoses each adopt an independent position, but they are tobe read dialectically as one diagnosis – in four perspectives. This Kierkegaardiandiagnosis does not provide an alternative to the diagnoses, but a critical andpersistent corrective. It provides a manner of thinking, which may be determined‘applied Kierkegaard’.

AB - ABSTRACTINSUFFICIENTLY OUTSTANDING - A KIERKEGAARDIAN DIAGNOSIS OF THE DIAGNOSTIC SOCIETYThis dissertation is, as the subtitle states, a Kierkegaardian diagnosis of thediagnostic society. The choice of subject is not diagnoses or existence, but theway in which the single individual relates to both of them and how they thusentangle. With the aid of critical theory, social psychology, and theologicalcritique of religion, the dissertation investigates how it affects us that in thepresent time the diagnosis offers itself to every one of us, in the sense that wecan chose to see ourselves, and interpret our lives, through the ‘eyes’ of thediagnostic manual.The methodological approach is fundamentally Kierkegaardian. In orderto preserve the complexity of the subject, the dissertation presents four paralleldiagnoses (in four chapters) with an outset in four Kierkegaardian pseudonyms,each of which adopt an independent position:1. The climacian diagnosis brings a charge against society. With the aid ofcritical theory, it is claimed that the demand to be outstanding has become afounding existential premise of our time (out-standing, both in the sense ofbeing exceptional and in the sense of being independent of others, that is, bystanding out – by oneself). As such it is the normative demands of authenticityand autonomy which bring us to the verge of exhaustion and depression.The fact that the feeling of insufficiency is so dominant today is due to the painfulexperience that we are not able to live up to the somewhat diffuse ideal ofbeing sufficiently outstanding.2. The anti-climacian diagnosis shifts the perspective to the self. Here, thebasic premise is that there is no such thing as existential health, only a kind ofdespair and shame, which the self cannot bypass. It is not so much the externaldemand as the reaction of the self which causes the self to despair and loseitself in downward moving spirals of shame and enclosed reserve.3. The haufniencian diagnosis shifts the perspective to the mind. Here, theKierkegaardian pseudonyms are used as actual diagnosticians in an attempt tobreak down the simplification, which holds that anxiety be either a condition oran illness from which we must be cured. At the same time, the haufniencian diagnosis provides – parallel to Haufniensis’ revolt against the doctrine oforiginal sin – a revolt against the doctrine of diagnoses: that it is the sickness in me,which acts on behalf of me.4. The fourth diagnosis is distinguished from the former three by being fundamentallyupbuilding. Here, it is neither the diagnosis nor the diagnosed thatare addressed – but the neighbor. The unfulfillable demand is now directed toeach one of us and it demands that we help the other human being to standby himself – and that we should do so by seeing him as more than what thediagnosis is able to see.The four diagnoses each adopt an independent position, but they are tobe read dialectically as one diagnosis – in four perspectives. This Kierkegaardiandiagnosis does not provide an alternative to the diagnoses, but a critical andpersistent corrective. It provides a manner of thinking, which may be determined‘applied Kierkegaard’.

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