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- Title
Final Words: Training in Christianity as a Terminal Writing.
- Authors
Delecroix, Vincent
- Abstract
This essay aims to show how (and in what sense and to what extent) Training in Christianity can be seen as a "terminal" writing, how it can be understood, in every sense, as a last speech. Though Kierkegaard went on writing after publishing Training in Christianity, the last words of Anti-Climacus can be seen as a culminating point. They constitute what could be called the final words, or the words of the end. But this end could be understood in different ways: 1) as the end of a career and a definitive turn in the movement of self-becoming shaped and nourished by the act of writing; 2) as the highest point of Kierkegaardian discourse ("superior pseudonymity") inhabited by the highest figure, the figure of ideality; 3) as the situs where the final categories or, rather, the categories of the end can be shown and uttered; 4) as the end of history, insofar as this discourse wants to take place at the end of a catastrophic and precisely anti-Hegelian history, but also as it provides the category (contemporaneity) to end history or destroy the non-real reality of history.
- Subjects
KIERKEGAARD, Soren, 1813-1855; TRAINING in Christianity (Book); DISCOURSE; HISTORY; CONTEMPORARY, The; PHILOSOPHY; SPEECH
- Publication
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 2010, Vol 2010, p91
- ISSN
1430-5372
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1515/9783110223026.91