Le phénomène de la souffrance comme élément constitutif de la théophilosophie affirmative de Kierkegaard
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Andrzej Słowikowski
Abstract
This paper analyzes the problem of suffering in Kierkegaard’s thought on the basis of two main parts of his work: pseudonymous writings and upbuilding discourses. The main assumption is that Kierkegaard presents the problem of suffering differently in these two parts: in the pseudonymous writings from the viewpoint of the negative dialectic of paradox, and in the upbuilding discourses in terms of the positive dialectic of upbuilding. Therefore, the problem of suffering is examined separately in both these parts: in the pseudonymous writings as the phenomenology of suffering and in the upbuilding discourses as the hermeneutics of suffering. The most important conclusion is that the experience of suffering in Christianity has a completely positive dimension, because it is radically opposed to the experience of evil. The Christian suffering is in this approach, according to the pattern of Jesus Christ, an effect of the spiritual development of a human being in God and a place of God’s revelation in human existence. This understanding of Christian suffering leads to the discovery of a perspective of affirmative theophilosophy as an original interpretation of the Christian ideal presented by Kierkegaard.
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Preface
- Contents
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives
- Unfinished Business: The Time and Space of Irony
- Textual Immediacy and Sexual Intimacy: Kierkegaard’s Diary of a Failure
- The Politics of Selfhood with Constant Reference to Kierkegaard
- Der Mensch als Selbst. Zum Begriff des präreflexiven Selbstbewusstseins in Kierkegaards Krankheit zum Tode (1849)
- Prayer as God-knowledge (via Self)
- Le phénomène de la souffrance comme élément constitutif de la théophilosophie affirmative de Kierkegaard
- Re-reading the Religious – Aesthetically: A Literary Analysis of “The Woman Who Was a Sinner” and The Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air
- De te fabula narratur. A Re-active Interplay with Kierkegaard’s Authorship
- Section 2: Sourcework Studies
- “Everything Has Its Time.” Kierkegaard’s Reading of Ecclesiastes
- Schelling in the Kierkegaardian Project: Between Kantian Critique and the Second Ethics
- On Kierkegaard’s Reaction to H.N. Clausen
- “Philosophy and Christianity can never be united”: The Role of Sibbern and Martensen in Kierkegaard’s Reception of Schleiermacher
- On the Origins of Kierkegaard’s Climacus Writings and Paradox Christology
- Section 3: Kierkegaard Reception
- Kierkegaard’s Reception in Lithuania
- The Voice of Conscience, Kierkegaard’s Theory of Indirect Communication, and Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue
- A Promise Kept, a Self Repeated? Reading Gjentagelsen with Ricoeur
- «Être sans destin»: Imre Kertész, ou le concept d’existence constamment rapporté à Kierkegaard
- Section 4: Primary Texts in Translation
- Hans Lassen Martensen’s “The Present Religious Crisis”
- Section 5: Bibliography
- Kierkegaard Literature from 2005 to 2013. A Descriptive Bibliography
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Preface
- Contents
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives
- Unfinished Business: The Time and Space of Irony
- Textual Immediacy and Sexual Intimacy: Kierkegaard’s Diary of a Failure
- The Politics of Selfhood with Constant Reference to Kierkegaard
- Der Mensch als Selbst. Zum Begriff des präreflexiven Selbstbewusstseins in Kierkegaards Krankheit zum Tode (1849)
- Prayer as God-knowledge (via Self)
- Le phénomène de la souffrance comme élément constitutif de la théophilosophie affirmative de Kierkegaard
- Re-reading the Religious – Aesthetically: A Literary Analysis of “The Woman Who Was a Sinner” and The Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air
- De te fabula narratur. A Re-active Interplay with Kierkegaard’s Authorship
- Section 2: Sourcework Studies
- “Everything Has Its Time.” Kierkegaard’s Reading of Ecclesiastes
- Schelling in the Kierkegaardian Project: Between Kantian Critique and the Second Ethics
- On Kierkegaard’s Reaction to H.N. Clausen
- “Philosophy and Christianity can never be united”: The Role of Sibbern and Martensen in Kierkegaard’s Reception of Schleiermacher
- On the Origins of Kierkegaard’s Climacus Writings and Paradox Christology
- Section 3: Kierkegaard Reception
- Kierkegaard’s Reception in Lithuania
- The Voice of Conscience, Kierkegaard’s Theory of Indirect Communication, and Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue
- A Promise Kept, a Self Repeated? Reading Gjentagelsen with Ricoeur
- «Être sans destin»: Imre Kertész, ou le concept d’existence constamment rapporté à Kierkegaard
- Section 4: Primary Texts in Translation
- Hans Lassen Martensen’s “The Present Religious Crisis”
- Section 5: Bibliography
- Kierkegaard Literature from 2005 to 2013. A Descriptive Bibliography
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
