In:
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Vol. 25, No. 1 ( 2020-08-18), p. 193-218
Abstract:
This article explores Kierkegaard’s largely overlooked 1838 paper “Telegraph Messages from a Mousvoyant to a Clairvoyant concerning the Relation between Xnty and Philosophy,” and argues that it can be read as a polemic against the speculative unity of philosophy and Christianity and speculative thought’s epistemological optimism, especially targeting the Danish speculative theologian Hans Lassen Martensen. It will be suggested that the “Telegraph Messages” offer a corrective to this view by separating Christianity and philosophy and underlining the ambiguity of human existence and the paradoxicality of the religious sphere, thus foreshadowing key themes in Kierkegaard’s mature pseudonymous authorship.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1612-9792
,
1430-5372
DOI:
10.1515/kierke-2020-0009
Language:
English
Publisher:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publication Date:
2020
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2118444-6
SSG:
1
SSG:
5,1
SSG:
7,12
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