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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... historical , literary , and ideological resource for Kierkegaard's writing . The Bible is at least as important a text for Kierkegaard as the works of , for example , Hegel or Kant . It is therefore my intention to show that readings ...
... historical overview of the main functions of quotation , notably the tension between its functions as " ornament " and as " authority . " I cover a wide range of issues , from the framework of mimesis in ancient rhetoric to quotation as ...
... Historical Perspective As it is not the aim of this section to give a full account of the complex history of the practice of quoting , I shall give only an overview , empha- sizing several characteristic moments in the history of ...
... historical , tropological / moral , allegorical / mys- tical , anagogical / eschatological . These opened the way for a variety of readings of the Bible even when they remained rooted in the framework of authority . Through its ...
... historical consciousness.3 One of the main questions of hermeneu- tics was to define its task in relation to historical mediation . The two thinkers who are most likely to have influenced Kierkegaard on this subject , Schleiermacher and ...