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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... for three years . My deepest gratitude goes to George , for his unfailing support and generosity , and for being a utopian reader - understanding the author better than she herself . Introduction It is as if an error slipped into an ix.
... reading of Kierkegaard's works often leads to quite extreme descriptions , for example : " It is fundamental to any understanding of his writings and to this analysis , that Kierkegaard was a theologian in Introduction □ xiii.
... understanding both of religiousness and of ethical relations . In the course of writing the book , it became clear that the majority of the important issues in Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings are either introduced by biblical ...
... understanding the func- tion of Scripture in his thought . " 16 The first difference in our approaches is one of scope : I concentrate only on the pseudonymous writings ( and already find these to be a very broad field ) , whereas Rosas ...
... understanding of the authority of an author . I discuss his notion of indirect communication and its correlatives , such as teleological suspension of truth , in order to provide a horizon for my claim that the use of the biblical quota ...