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Ausgabe:

November/2020

Spalte:

1099–1101

Kategorie:

Philosophie, Religionsphilosophie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Kangas, David J.

Titel/Untertitel:

Errant Affirmations. On the Philosophical Meaning of Kierkegaard’s Religious Discourses.

Verlag:

London u. a.: Bloomsbury Academic 2017. X, 198 S. Geb. £ 90,00. ISBN 9781350020054.

Rezensent:

Iben Damgaard

In the opening sentence of the preface, David J. Kangas points out that »Kierkegaard, like Nietzsche, was a brilliant polemicist« (IX). Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous writings present a harsh critique against speculative thought, »the present age«, the established church and so much else. In the »No« of the polemical writings, K.s perceives »something of the spirit of resentment animating them« (IX), in contrast to Kierkegaard’s religious discourses, for what re-sonate in them is »the affirmation that ›there is a today, with an in-finite emphasis upon is‹« (X).
According to K., the discourses like »the work of art« give time and »create room to breathe, the very breath of affirmation« (X). They point towards »an affirmation of reality that is ...


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