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Is Either/Or a Religious Work or Not?
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August 1, 2015
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In this article I raise the question of whether or not Kierkegaard’s earliest pseudonymous work, Either/Or, is a “religious” work, as he later claims in The Point of View for My Work as an Author. Contra Henning Fenger, Joakim Garff, and Alastair Hannay, I argue with Charles Bellinger, David Law, Robert Perkins and Joel Rasmussen that Either/Or is in fact a religious work. After giving a definition of the term “religious,” I carry this out primarily by paying close attention to the text and secondarily by an examination of what kind of vocational approach to writing Either/Or evinces, a question which Law notes has not yet been adequately addressed in Kierkegaard studies
Published Online: 2015-8-1
Published in Print: 2015-7-1
© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Titelei
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Section 1: Kierkegaard as a Philosopher
- “The Philosophical Thesis of the Identity of Thinking and Being is Just the Opposite of What it seems to be.” Kierkegaard on the Relations between Being and Thought
- The Posited Self: The Non-Theistic Foundation in Kierkegaard’s Writings
- Climacus and the Arguments for God’s Existence
- The Middle Term: Kierkegaard and the Contemporary Debate about Explanatory Theism
- O2 can do? Kierkegaard and the Debate on Divine Omnipotence
- Section 2: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Some Problems and Contemporary Perspectives
- Much Ado About (Almost) Nothing: In Defense of “Magister Kierkegaard”
- Is Either/Or a Religious Work or Not?
- Kierkegaard and the Self-Conscious Literary Tradition: An Interpretation of the Ludic Aspects of Kierkegaard’s Pseudonymous Authorship from a Literary-Historical Perspective
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- Kierkegaard Reception in Modern Theology: A Review and Assessment
- A Matter of Mimesis: Kierkegaard and Ricoeur on Narrative Identity
- Section 4: Editing Kierkegaard
- An Overview of Kierkegaard’s Nachlass. Part One: the Materials
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- Section 5: Appendix
- Index to Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 1996–2014
- Abbreviations
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