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- Title
"Playing Stranger": Works of Love Caught in the Act(?).
- Authors
BØGGILD, JACOB
- Abstract
Works of Love is a text about the ethics of communication. And as it practises such an ethics, it is furthermore a performative text. According to Works of Love it is impossible to determine whether any act, any utterance or deed, is an expression of good or selfish intentions. And the source of good, the divine presence - or trace - within us, is stated to be something we are not able to confront directly. Therefore, the text is also concerned with the sublime, with what cannot be represented. The article attempts to sort out this relationship between performativity and sublimity, arguing that Kierkegaard is playing the game of stranger, simultaneously familiarizing himself with and distancing himself from the reader.
- Publication
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 1998, Vol 1998, Issue 1, p158
- ISSN
1430-5372
- Publication type
Article