Vai Kirkegors bija nihilists? ; Was Kierkegaard a nihilist?
In: Eksistence un komunikacija : Serena Kirkegora filosofia, Riga, 2006, p. 103-113 ; ISBN 9984624390, 2006, S. 103-113
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It is undoubted, that two recent centuries are marked out by the sign of the nihilism. «We all are nihilists,» used to say the genius of already the century before last Fyodor Dostojevsky. In a popular and even literary sense the nihilism signifies the reference to experience that main characteristic could be emphasized as the highest estimation of the individual self-recognition in a chaotic, unintelligible and full of the anxiety world. The very first philosophical meaning of this phenomenon usually is linked with Nietzsche's name. This thinker realizes nihilism already as the «historical motion in the direction of Nothingness». Nietzsche's thought, which opens the philosophical perspective of nihilism, allows Heidegger to uncover the beginning of nihilistic thinking and to link the history of nihilism with the history of Nothingness. What is the place in this history for S. Kierkegaard? Was Kierkegaard a nihilist? Looking for the answers to such questions we'll have to consider the notion of Faith, the stages of life's way and the indirect communication in Kierkegaard's philosophy. Nihilistic points of Kierkegaard's philosophy raise first of all in the nature of the question's (of the question of Faith ) rise by it self. The reflection on Faith in the Fear And Tremble allows to read the motion of Abraham's faith as the act of annihilatio, God as nihil, and to treat Kierkegaard himself like a thinker who had practiced via negativa. By saying that Abraham sacrifices Isaac in the name of God, which means in the name of Nothingness, he draws a perspective of the nihilistic thought. Such perspective is sharpened by the impossibility of Abraham's language to present itself as the communicative measure. However, Kierkegaard not only draws himself in the context of nihilism and the history of Nothingness, but he also shows the ambivalent perspective of Nothingness (Nothingness as reality and Nothingness as nothing or emptiness). The difference between those two nihilistic perspectives reveals itself when the figure of representative of estheticness and the figure of Knight of the Faith are discussed. The structure of annihilation's motion rises in Kierkegaard's reflection of communicative act as well. He demands from the «announcer» to transmit the truth in the due shape. «The art of communication, - says Kierkegaard in his Practice in Christianity, - consists in making oneself, the communicator into a nobody, purely objectives This exhortation addressed to communicator who communicates his own subjective truth to turn into «zero», «nothing», «impersonal», and «something objective» should be treated as motion of the annihilation. Consideration of the certain nihilistic points in Kierke-' gaard's philosophy let us search for the connection of his thought with the philosophy of Pseudo Dionisius, Eckhart, and Luther. On the other hand, this allows us to raise the question: which nihilistic points of Kierkegaard's philosophy are linked with the contemporary tradition of the apophatic thought.
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Vai Kirkegors bija nihilists? ; Was Kierkegaard a nihilist?
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Šerpytytė, Rita |
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Zeitschrift: | Eksistence un komunikacija : Serena Kirkegora filosofia, Riga, 2006, p. 103-113 ; ISBN 9984624390, 2006, S. 103-113 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2006 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISBN: | 978-9984-624-39-6 (print) ; 9984-624-39-0 (print) |
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