No. 64 (2022): Septiembre-diciembre
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The Desperate and Failed Repetition. A Comparison of Kierkegaard’s Repetition and Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther

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  • Luis Guerrero Martínez
Luis Guerrero Martínez
Universidad Iberoamericana. Departamento de Filosofía
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v640.2008

Published 2022-08-13

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Guerrero Martínez, L. (2022). The Desperate and Failed Repetition. A Comparison of Kierkegaard’s Repetition and Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, (64), 385–416. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v640.2008

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Abstract

One of the most complex and, at the same time, most important philosophical categories in Kierkegaard’s thought is that of “repetition”. To this notion Kierkegaard devotes one of his first pseudonymous works, namely, Repetition, by Constantin Constantius. This paper, firstly, explores the concept of “desperate and failed repetition” that plays an important role in Kierkegaardian irony. Secondly, it shows some parallel aspects found in Repetition and in Goethe’s novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther; this connection allows for a better understanding of both works regarding despair linked to a failed repetition.

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