Stealing a Gift: Kierkegaard's Pseudonyms and the BibleFordham Univ Press, 2004 - 206 sider This book studies the use of biblical quotations in Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works, as well as Kierkegaard's hermeneutical methods in general. Kierkegaard's mode of writing in these works--indeed, the very method of indirect communication--consists in a certain appropriation of the Bible. Kierkegaard thus becomes God's "plagiarist," repeating the Bible by reinscribing it into his own texts, where it becomes a part of his philosophical discourse and relates to most of his conceptual constructions. The Bible might also be called a gift, but a gift that does not belong to Kierkegaard, one he merely passes along to his reader. The invisible omnipresence of God's Word in the pseudonymous works, as opposed to the signed ones, forces us to revisit the entire distinction between the religious and the aesthetic. |
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... authorship . Despite flexible and expandable definitions such as " Kierkegaard was a religious and philosophical thinker who possessed a touch of a poet , in their actual analysis and interpretation most researchers have approached ...
... authorship , that of modern phi- losophy vs. Christianity . The reference is to Matthew 8.13 : " As thou hast believed , so be it done unto thee , " and it also highlights his key idea , namely the idea of being as believing rather than ...
... authorship . His book is arranged work by work , and apart from some very general ( and dubious ) remarks about a given work's nature and themes , it amounts to enlisting biblical quotations in the cause of Rosas's mono- logical and ...
... authorship he discloses diverse sides of the same issues , depending on the immediate and par- ticular constellation of the problems discussed in the text . It has not been my aim to compare different pseudonymous works , but merely to ...
... authorship . Chapter 5 concentrates on alterations in the biblical quotations in Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works , arguing that these deviations can contribute to the advance of indirect communication . The implications of biblical ...