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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... original perspective , and one that could per- haps serve as a way out of these kinds of conflicts . In keeping with this view , one of the main aims and expectations of this book is to contribute to the demolition of the artificial ...
... original the author , the more thoroughly he or she has absorbed various possibilities in the history of writing - but also the more urgent is the need for readers to recognize these and , as far as possible , integrate these multiple ...
... original text in creatively reinterpreting it , so that the resulting meaning is not the outcome of a simple transposition but of an interactive process . As I have mentioned , to my knowledge there is no comprehensive treatment of the ...
... original text , I gave quotations both in English and Danish . The structure of my book is characterized by a movement from the more general to the concrete , and by my attempt to put the general context and the concrete analysis ...
... original saying . Medieval Theology Quotations occupy a special place in a discourse concerned with Christian theological matters , because all Christian theological dis- course is constructed around biblical quotations . As Compagnon ...