TY - CHAP
T1 - Infinite reduplication
T2 - Kierkegaard's negative concept of god
AU - Kline, Peter
N1 - Includes bibliographical references.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Given that Soren Kierkegaard claims that "God is infinite reduplication,"in what sense might it be said that he is an apophatic thinker? Insofar as he concerns himself with the finitude of the existing self his thought undoubtedly brims with themes that approach the apophatic: paradox,uncertainty, irony, silence, etc. Yet, for Kierkegaard, the finitude of the self arises only in and as a relation to infinitude, that is, to the eternal,to God. What is crucial, then, in any account of Kierkegaard's apophaticism, which constitutes the real force of his break with the Hegelian tradition, is an analysis of the sense in which God is infinite, or is the infinite.
AB - Given that Soren Kierkegaard claims that "God is infinite reduplication,"in what sense might it be said that he is an apophatic thinker? Insofar as he concerns himself with the finitude of the existing self his thought undoubtedly brims with themes that approach the apophatic: paradox,uncertainty, irony, silence, etc. Yet, for Kierkegaard, the finitude of the self arises only in and as a relation to infinitude, that is, to the eternal,to God. What is crucial, then, in any account of Kierkegaard's apophaticism, which constitutes the real force of his break with the Hegelian tradition, is an analysis of the sense in which God is infinite, or is the infinite.
UR - https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319658995
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-65900-8_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-65900-8_10
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9783319658995
T3 - Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
SP - 163
EP - 184
BT - Contemporary debates in negative theology and philosophy
A2 - Brown, Nahum
A2 - Simmons, Aaron J.
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - United Kingdom
ER -