Stealing a Gift: Kierkegaard's Pseudonyms and the BibleThis 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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... 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 combining the three modes of think- ing and writing , corresponding ...
... dialectic ( which can be also expressed through the paradigm active- passive ) is inherent to quotation , and in this way sets it apart from other textual elements . By defining quotation as " a repeated utter- ance [ énoncé ] and a ...
... dialectic between the active and the passive mode is present in the quotation insofar as quotation has an independent meaning , but in the interaction with the host text acquires a new meaning itself and affects the meaning of the host ...
... dialectic of distance and proximity in the process of appropriation , and the possibility of treating quotation as a symbol of the problem of repetition . Kierkegaard's Hermeneutics : Hidden Communication Indeed , give [ somebody ...
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