P. Stokes 
Kierkegaard’s Mirrors 
Interest, Self, and Moral Vision

What is it to see the world, other people, and imagined situations as making personal moral demands of us? What is it to experience stories as speaking to us personally and directly? Kierkegaard’s Mirrors explores Kierkegaard’s answers to these questions, with a new phenomenological interpretation of Kierkegaardian ‘interest’.

Table of Content

Acknowledgements Sigla Introduction PART I: STRUCTURES OF SUBJECTIVITY The Interesting and the Interested: Stages on a Concept’s Way The Structure of Consciousness Consciousness as Interest The Ontology of the Self PART II: MORAL VISION Imagination and Agency Self-Recognition Mirrors Seeing the Other PART III: KNOWLEDGE AND MEANING Concern, Misfortune and Despair Interest in the Postscript: The Telos of Knowing Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

About the author

PATRICK STOKES is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark,  and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne, Australia. Please also see www.patrickstokes.com