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- Title
Glaube und <sub>"</sub>Unmittelbarkeit<sup>"</sup> bei Kierkegaard.
- Authors
Von Gerhard, Schreiber
- Abstract
This paper examines KierkegaardÌs varied use of the term "immediacy" with regard to his account of Christian faith. In Section 1, I will define the term "immediacy" with respect both to its ambiguity and to the different ways in which it is used, i.e., as an epistemological and as an ontological assumption. In Section 2, I will try to outline how KierkegaardÌs peculiar account of faith as "immediacy" can be located within the context of his time, namely as part of a general effort in the philosophy and theology of the "Pre-March Era" [Vormärz] to (re)establish immediacies that were not susceptible of mediation - in contrast to HegelÌs dialectic, which had implemented continuous mediation of all immediacies. In the first part of Section 3, however, I want to show that Hegel himself cannot be considered as an actual target of KierkegaardÌs criticism - that is, that in the philosophy and theology of KierkegaardÌs time, faith was conceived of only as an indeterminate immediacy, and was hence the first to be mediated, inasmuch as Hegel himself, as a matter of fact, considered faith to be a mediated immediacy. Finally, in the second and third part of Section 3, I wish to demonstrate how it is precisely the different (possible) ways of using the term "immediacy" that can provide a hermeneutic key for an understanding of Kierkegaard Ìs account of faith.
- Subjects
KIERKEGAARD, Soren, 1813-1855; VERBAL immediacy; FAITH; CHRISTIANITY; THEORY of knowledge; ONTOLOGY; THEOLOGY; HERMENEUTICS
- Publication
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 2010, Vol 2010, p391
- ISSN
1430-5372
- Publication type
Article