TY - BOOK AU - Wilde,Niels TI - Isotopography: Kierkegaard’s Topological Realism T2 - Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series , SN - 9783111548500 U1 - 198.9 PY - 2024///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - Kierkegaard, Søren KW - Ontologie KW - Spekulativer Realismus KW - Topologie KW - RELIGION / Christian Theology / History KW - bisacsh KW - ontology KW - speculative realism KW - topology N1 - Diss; Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Figures --; Introduction: I Am Not a Potato, I Am Another --; Part One: Situatedness [Bestedelse] --; Chapter One Emplacement --; Chapter Two Being-Placed --; Part Two: Movement [Bevægelse] --; Chapter Three Elementality --; Chapter Four (Atmo)spherology --; Part Three: The Event [Begivenheden] --; Chapter Five Emergence --; Chapter Six Topology of The Kingdom --; Conclusion: Topological Realism --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - While the concept of place remains undertheorized in Kierkegaard research, this study argues that place is at the center of Kierkegaard’s thinking. The first part of the book shows that Kierkegaard’s notion of situatedness as being-placed in a socio-historical situation conditioned by a situation prior to situatedness points to a realist position and a flat ontology. Secondly, the book develops a detailed analysis of the ontological structure of the existential place (the place we ourselves are) and concrete places (the places where we are). Place opens a qualified space within bounds (the existence-sphere), an atmosphere of elemental attunement and attuned elementality. Finally, the book collects the dots from part one and two in a topological realist approach to Kierkegaard’s theology and three main definitions of God: God is love, God is that everything is possible, and God is the middle term. The book concludes that Kierkegaard’s existential topography reveals a realist position: where we are is never exhausted by being the place where we are UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111548791 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111548791 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111548791/original ER -