The Hidden Authorship of Søren Kierkegaard. Jacob Sawyer

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venture in communicating the gospel through being hidden “in the truth.” It is a matter involving not only concepts, but also the embodied relation of such concepts to the reader and the author. In this work we will give primary consideration to Kierkegaard’s use of pseudonyms in order to come to understand this layering.50

      We begin with a brief explication of my thesis statement by way of introducing Kierkegaard’s task, and will propose a christological understanding of “hiddenness” as the basis for the form of his authorship. This will then be the foundation for demonstrating such hiddenness being outworked in the authorship in a multilayered fashion. Three sections correspond to those layers mentioned above, each contributing to a progressively deeper demonstration of Kierkegaard’s hidden authorship:

      Part I outlines some key concepts that are explicit throughout the authorship and are important in understanding Kierkegaard’s task. Chief of these are “the single individual” and essential truth, and the concept of hiddenness is discussed throughout.

      Part III considers Kierkegaard as an example of a Christian communicator and evaluates his authorship against his own critique of Hegel, the author who wrote himself out of existence. This section seeks to address how Kierkegaard overcame the problems inherent in the work of Hegel and his followers through hiding himself. We then discuss Kierkegaard’s concepts of existence-communication and reduplication, and how they can be understood to relate to Kierkegaard himself, as well as how his own explanation of his authorship impinges on his task.

      This book will demonstrate the presence of hiddenness throughout Kierkegaard’s authorship as a whole, and how this was derived from his understanding of the gospel of Christianity.

      My Use of Kierkegaard’s Pseudonymous and Signed Works

      Primary Works Consulted

      My Use of Personal Pronouns in Relation to God


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