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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... relationship with God has to be rediscovered or re - envisaged . Kierkegaard suggests that it is possible to relate to God ... relation to the biblical word . The tension between reason and revelation or between autonomy and heteronomy ...
... relation between the aesthetic and the religious in his writing is not at all a case of either - or . If I succeed in showing the extent to which the Bible is present in the pseudonymous writings and in unveiling something of the many ...
... 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 quotations or are at least set up in relation to the ...
... relation is not so straight or clear - cut . Kierkegaard constantly engages in dialogue with the biblical material . In the Concept of Anxiety , for example , he says : " I freely admit my inability to connect any definite thought with ...
... relation to the biblical text . Second , Rosas treats the biblical quotations as literary devices , whereas I want to show that far from being merely literary elements or ornaments , they play a constructive role in Kierkegaard's ...