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The Fragments of Feminism in Kierkegaard's Thought

If there is one thing we can say about the Great Dane with certainty, it is that he was a rather interesting writer of his works. Though considered to be the „father of existentialism“ as we got to know it today, he had led a life that enabled him to truly understand many features of existentialist approach to life. The one thing he always insisted on was that a man must find meaning within himself, for himself, and each man (thus, also, a woman) must do so individually. Since the aim of this paper is to show how and where does Kierkegaard prove to be a somewhat feminist apologist, though highly misogynistic at times, first we will show how his own life had had a tremendous impact on his philosophical works, and how writing some of those works under various pseudonyms may have affected our view of Kierkegaard as either misogynistic or slightly feministic. Secondly, we shall briefly revise how are the three stages of existence important in depicting not only a man's existence (referring to only a man by gender), but also a woman's, and how is she capable of reaching her own existence, if at all. Lastly, we shall aim at showing how a single individual, hence both a man and a woman in themselves, might reach what Kierkegaard views as one's mission – to become his or her own individual.

Kierkegaard, Feminism, women, self-realization

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