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The Concept Of Grief: A Phenomenological Account With Continual Reference To Kierkegaard, Nathan Sweetman
The Concept Of Grief: A Phenomenological Account With Continual Reference To Kierkegaard, Nathan Sweetman
Honors Undergraduate Theses
My thesis argues that Søren Kierkegaard provides a perspective on grief that validates emotional experience while offering the opportunity for transcendence beyond the immediacy of grief through the work of love in recollecting one who is dead. Conventional philosophical approaches offer an incomplete picture by focusing on grief either as exclusively emotional or exclusively moral. The alternative methodology of phenomenology serves to draw out common threads from the intensely subjective, inward experience of grief. Kierkegaard’s writings on the topics of grief, sorrow, and love for the dead reflect the complexity uncovered in the phenomenological analysis. Traditional interpretations of Kierkegaard’s call …
Hope Without Assurance: The Eucatastrophic Nature Of Tolkien's Arda, Grant Glavin
Hope Without Assurance: The Eucatastrophic Nature Of Tolkien's Arda, Grant Glavin
Honors Undergraduate Theses
J.R.R. Tolkien’s massive body of work represents decades of effort from a man who, burdened by the suffering and grief of a world he considered to be fallen, wished to combine his love of fairy-stories and mythology with the otherworldly hope of eucatastrophe, Tolkien’s word for unexpected divine joy amid suffering, present at the heart of his strong Catholic beliefs. Tolkien’s world of Arda is consequently full of suffering; it is written as a dark and dangerous place, where dyscatastrophe, the prerequisite suffering before eucatastrophe, exists within the world from its conception and Eden has never been obtainable …