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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... hand , once one has decided to treat Kierkegaard as a theologian , everything is subjected to this presupposition . For example , Arnold Come says : " First , it must be noted that when Kierkegaard says he is a poet , he almost always ...
... hand , even those that are 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 ...
... hand , quotation in the ancient times signified not only an explicit quo- tation or reference to the author but also a free paraphrase that cap- tured as it were only the overall meaning or spirit of the original saying . Medieval ...
... hand , his writings presuppose some knowledge of certain literary and philosophical tradition and refer to them frequently ; on the other hand , he is clearly antiauthoritarian . Montaigne claims that just because somebody else said ...
... hand and the reception of tradition on the other - that is to say , in the quotation . The complex relation between an author and the tradition is reflected by the choice of quotations , if it is at all a matter of choice and not a mere ...