By means of a Kierkegaardian critique of postmodernism, Ronald L. Hall                  argues that the postmodernist flirtation with Kierkegaard ignores the existential                  import of his thought. Word and Spirit offers a novel interpretation of                  Kierkegaard's conception of the self, according to which spirit is essentially                  linked to the speech act. In an extended interpretation of Kierkegaard's Either/Or,                  Hall uses insights from Austin, Wittgenstein, Polanyi, and Poteat to fill out and                  explicate Kierkegaard's views in the context of modern language philosophy. The                  enriched concept of the speech act represented by the Hebrew idea of dabhar frames                  Hall's critique of irony, romanticism, Don Giovanni, Faust, the demonic, music, and                  ultimately, postmodernisim in a Kierkegaardian mode. The result of the modern                  suspicion of speech, Hall concludes, is a demonic, musical spiritlessness.

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