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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... tautology , and negative theology . One of the key terms in my discussion of Kierkegaard's use of the biblical quotations will be his concept of contemporaneity . Appropriation then becomes the means of achieving this . The term ...
... tautology , reduplication , and repetition in the pseudonymous works . With the help of these concepts I try to shape the notion of contemporaneity and appropriation . I hope that the exposition of Kierkegaard's use of biblical quota ...
... tautology in Kierkegaard's writings , in Chapter 6 . There are two other important aspects of quoting within the theo- logical domain . The first is the issue of implicit quotations in the Bible and their subsequent requoting . The ...
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