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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... given work's nature and themes , it amounts to enlisting biblical quotations in the cause of Rosas's mono- logical and tendentious argument . He claims that " Kierkegaard worked from and assumed the truth of biblical material . " 17 I ...
... given in quotation marks may contain inaccuracies . In fact , it seems that there is no explanation for the presence or absence of quotation marks or accompanying intro- ductory words such as , " as it is said in Scripture , " and the ...
... given that quotation can be inexact or modified , we have to deter- mine the minimal requirement of identity for there to be a quotation . This is necessary in order to allow even the slightest allusion to form a link between two texts ...
... given period , one can observe that during cer- tain periods , some functions of quotations have been preferred to others according to different perceptions of textuality.3 The most important periods in the history of quotation coincide ...
... given the focal place that quotation necessarily occupies in the biblical commentaries . The biblical quota- tions in the writings of medieval theologians act for the whole of the Bible , according to the principle of a synecdoche ...