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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... sense an essential part of the whole pro- duction -- and now this error wants to mutiny against the author , out of hatred toward him , forbidding him to correct it and in maniacal defi- ance saying to him : No , I refuse to be erased ...
... sense to ask whether he read the Bible in a philosophical or in a theological way . There is no such dichotomy in his works . He offers an original perspective , and one that could per- haps serve as a way out of these kinds of ...
... sense . " 10 This kind of interpretation has ignored Kierkegaard's dialectics and done incredible damage to his reception ; it has rarely done justice to Kierkegaard's rich and varied reading of the Bible . The present study involves ...
... sense , to echo Kierkegaard's own copious and multilayered writing . I have called this interdisciplinary approach " hermeneutical " fully conscious of the abuse of the term . This point has been well put by Vattimo in a preface to ...
... sense . It has become necessary , in writing anything about Kierkegaard , to clarify one's position regarding his pseudonyms.26 I shall often use the name " Kierkegaard " while speaking of his pseudonymous production , without however ...