Ways of Dying: the Double Death in Kierkegaard and Blanchot
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Ways of Dying : the Double Death in Kierkegaard and Blanchot. / Michaelsen, Cathrine Bjørnholt.
In: Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 2014, p. 255-283.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Ways of Dying
T2 - the Double Death in Kierkegaard and Blanchot
AU - Michaelsen, Cathrine Bjørnholt
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Focusing mainly on Christian Discourses and the discourse “At a Graveside,”this paper seeks to unfold and discuss the various ways of dying depictedby Kierkegaard. By engaging Maurice Blanchot’s conception of a “double death,”I will argue that different relations to death are attributed to the pagan and to thebeliever. Special attention is drawn to the divergent temporalities that apparentlydefine the possibilities and impossibilities of dying. This approach also involvesan investigation of the “dispersion” and the “contemporaneity” pertaining to thedying pagan and the dying believer, respectively.“Numquam enim erit homini peius in morte, quam ubi erit mors ipsa sine morte.”¹“Wiederholung ist nur in Gestalt der Treue nicht Endlosigkeit, sondern Erfüllung.”²1. St. Augustine, De Civitate Dei, XIII, 11.2. Karl Jaspers, Philosophie. II. Existenzerhellung, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York: Springer-Verlag 1973, p. 228.
AB - Focusing mainly on Christian Discourses and the discourse “At a Graveside,”this paper seeks to unfold and discuss the various ways of dying depictedby Kierkegaard. By engaging Maurice Blanchot’s conception of a “double death,”I will argue that different relations to death are attributed to the pagan and to thebeliever. Special attention is drawn to the divergent temporalities that apparentlydefine the possibilities and impossibilities of dying. This approach also involvesan investigation of the “dispersion” and the “contemporaneity” pertaining to thedying pagan and the dying believer, respectively.“Numquam enim erit homini peius in morte, quam ubi erit mors ipsa sine morte.”¹“Wiederholung ist nur in Gestalt der Treue nicht Endlosigkeit, sondern Erfüllung.”²1. St. Augustine, De Civitate Dei, XIII, 11.2. Karl Jaspers, Philosophie. II. Existenzerhellung, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York: Springer-Verlag 1973, p. 228.
KW - Faculty of Theology
U2 - 10.1515/kierke-2014-0112
DO - 10.1515/kierke-2014-0112
M3 - Journal article
SP - 255
EP - 283
JO - Kierkegaard Studies
JF - Kierkegaard Studies
SN - 1430-5372
ER -
ID: 100179013