„Mein Bestreben, das Martyrium zu verherrlichen…“ Zur Idee des Martyriums in Kierkegaards Journalen ab 1846
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Roman Winter
Abstract
The article aims at analysing a long and unduly neglected concept in Kierkegaard’s thought: the concept of martyrdom. I argue that this is indeed of central concern for Kierkegaard, and, moreover, that he conceptualizes it in a semantically unified and consistent way. In order to prove this I will focus on the so-called NB journals and provide a comprehensive account of the terms martyrdom and martyr in the context of these sources. Upon closer scrutiny, Kierkegaard distinguishes between two basic types of martyrdom: immediate and reflective. All other forms, as they appear in the journals (and also in the pseudonymous authorship), can be traced back to these basic types.
Diese Publikation erscheint im Kontext des vom LOEWE-Programm des Hessischen Ministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst geförderten Forschungsschwerpunkts „Religiöse Positionierung: Modalitäten und Konstellationen in jüdischen, christlichen und islamischen Kontexten“ an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt und der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Herzlichen Dank an Heiko Schulz und Gerhard Schreiber für ihre Mithilfe bei der Korrektur der Endfassung dieses Artikels.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Front matter
- Title pages
- Preface
- Contents
- Articles
- Section 1: Problems and Perspectives in Kierkegaard’s Authorship
- Section 1: Problems and Perspectives in Kierkegaard’s Authorship
- A Christian Art? Søren Kierkegaard’s Views on Music and Musical Performance Reconsidered
- Between the Two Ethics: Why Assessor Wilhelm is not a Judge
- Narrative Variation and the Mood of Freedom in Fear and Trembling
- On Fear and Trembling’s Motif of the Promise: Faith, Ethics and the Politics of Tragedy
- The Ambiguity of Mimesis: Kierkegaard between Aesthetic Fantasy and Religious Imitation
- Know Yourself in the Mirror of the Word: Kierkegaard on Self-Knowledge
- „Mein Bestreben, das Martyrium zu verherrlichen…“ Zur Idee des Martyriums in Kierkegaards Journalen ab 1846
- Section 2: Kierkegaard’s Sources and Historical Context
- Section 2: Kierkegaard’s Sources and Historical Context
- The Faust Project in Kierkegaard’s Early Journals
- Of Clairvoyants and Mousvoyants: Kierkegaard’s Polemic against Speculative Philosophy in the “Telegraph Messages”
- Section 3: Receptions and Reflections of Kierkegaard’s Thought
- Section 3: Receptions and Reflections of Kierkegaard’s Thought
- Does Kierkegaard’s Rewritten Parable of the Good Samaritan Leave the World to the Devil? Kierkegaard and Adorno on What it Means to Love one’s Neighbor in the Modern World
- Kierkegaard and Beauvoir: Existential Ethics as a Humanism
- Double Consciousness and Despair: Exploring a Connection Between Søren Kierkegaard and W.E.B. Du Bois
- Hitchcock Meets Kierkegaard: Selfhood and Gendered Forms of Despair in Vertigo and The Sickness unto Death
- Section 4: Kierkegaard’s Authorial Strategies
- Section 4: Kierkegaard’s Authorial Strategies
- The Mutiny of the Pseudonyms in the Kierkegaardian Authorship
- Section 5: Primary Texts in Translation
- Section 5: Primary Texts in Translation
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg’s “Literary Winter Crops” and Kierkegaard’s Polemic
- Back matter
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
Articles in the same Issue
- Front matter
- Title pages
- Preface
- Contents
- Articles
- Section 1: Problems and Perspectives in Kierkegaard’s Authorship
- Section 1: Problems and Perspectives in Kierkegaard’s Authorship
- A Christian Art? Søren Kierkegaard’s Views on Music and Musical Performance Reconsidered
- Between the Two Ethics: Why Assessor Wilhelm is not a Judge
- Narrative Variation and the Mood of Freedom in Fear and Trembling
- On Fear and Trembling’s Motif of the Promise: Faith, Ethics and the Politics of Tragedy
- The Ambiguity of Mimesis: Kierkegaard between Aesthetic Fantasy and Religious Imitation
- Know Yourself in the Mirror of the Word: Kierkegaard on Self-Knowledge
- „Mein Bestreben, das Martyrium zu verherrlichen…“ Zur Idee des Martyriums in Kierkegaards Journalen ab 1846
- Section 2: Kierkegaard’s Sources and Historical Context
- Section 2: Kierkegaard’s Sources and Historical Context
- The Faust Project in Kierkegaard’s Early Journals
- Of Clairvoyants and Mousvoyants: Kierkegaard’s Polemic against Speculative Philosophy in the “Telegraph Messages”
- Section 3: Receptions and Reflections of Kierkegaard’s Thought
- Section 3: Receptions and Reflections of Kierkegaard’s Thought
- Does Kierkegaard’s Rewritten Parable of the Good Samaritan Leave the World to the Devil? Kierkegaard and Adorno on What it Means to Love one’s Neighbor in the Modern World
- Kierkegaard and Beauvoir: Existential Ethics as a Humanism
- Double Consciousness and Despair: Exploring a Connection Between Søren Kierkegaard and W.E.B. Du Bois
- Hitchcock Meets Kierkegaard: Selfhood and Gendered Forms of Despair in Vertigo and The Sickness unto Death
- Section 4: Kierkegaard’s Authorial Strategies
- Section 4: Kierkegaard’s Authorial Strategies
- The Mutiny of the Pseudonyms in the Kierkegaardian Authorship
- Section 5: Primary Texts in Translation
- Section 5: Primary Texts in Translation
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg’s “Literary Winter Crops” and Kierkegaard’s Polemic
- Back matter
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
