Beyond the Night. The Concept of Death and its Meaning in S. Kierkegaard’s Thought
Keywords:
Kierkegaard; death; seriousness; transcendence; faith.Abstract
The article analyzes, from a phenomenological standpoint, death as correlation in Kierkegaard’s thought. First, it distinguishes the aspects (its decisive, undeterminable, and unexplainable character) that describe how death comes upon the subject of those other correlates (appropriation, actualization, edification) that refer to the serious mode in which the subject faces this supervenience. Finally, the article establishes a dialogue
between the discourse of Next to a Grave with the understanding of the knight of faith in Fear and Trembling in order to reconstruct the existential meaning of death as a challenge that urges us to a decision regarding the transcendence of existence.
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