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- Title
Pseudonyms? What Pseudonyms? There were no Pseudonyms...
- Authors
Pattison, George
- Abstract
The paper argues that the question of Kierkegaard's pseudonyms has been largely misconceived. Referencing comparable devices such as anonymity, noms de plume, and heteronyms, and drawing on Heidegger's discussion of Kierkegaardian pseudonymity in the lectures on Parmenides, the paper further distinguishes between fictional characters (e. g. the Seducer and Assessor Vilhelm), noms de plume (H.H.), fictional editors, and pseudonyms proper. It is argued that in the first authorship only Constantin Constantius and Johannes Climacus approximate to the criteria Kierkegaard himself lays down for pseudonymity. Furthermore, Kierkegaard's anxieties regarding the form of publication of his works in the late 1840s reveals the whole project of pseudonymity collapsing into incoherence. By means of a comparison with Nietzsche, it is argued that Kierkegaard's work is less a manifold of different literary personalities and more a play of revealing/concealing voices. In these voices there is nevertheless a literary watermark that makes Kierkegaard's work as a whole distinctively Kierkegaardian.
- Subjects
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900; ANONYMS &; pseudonyms; FICTIONAL characters
- Publication
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 2019, Vol 24, Issue 1, p243
- ISSN
1430-5372
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/kierke-2019-0010