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- Title
The Presence of the Absent Neighbor in Works of Love.
- Authors
SØLTOFT, PlA
- Abstract
It is often claimed that Kierkegaard looks upon the neighbor as an absent presence, whereby his conception of love in a sense is emptied of meaning. This critique has been made in Denmark by K.E. Løgstrup, but is was already present in T.W. Adorno's interpretation of Works of Love. The critique made by these two gentlemen forms the background of a close-reading of II. A and IX in Works of Love. From such a reading it becomes clear that the absent neighbor is present in every relation of neighbor love between concrete human beings. It is exactly his absence that gives the ethical demand an eternal and universal validity that is not bound to the actual presence of another individual, but which nevertheless has this presence as its specific object.
- Publication
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 1998, Vol 1998, Issue 1, p113
- ISSN
1430-5372
- Publication type
Article