A Prompter's Play? Kierkegaard's Puzzling Portrait of Authorial Withdrawal in "An Occasional Discourse"
Kierkegaard portrays his role as an author with the image of a prompter in "An Occasional Discourse" of 1847. A prompter in the theatre whispers not his own words, but a text by someone else already familiar to the actors on stage. This raises the question as to which text Kierkegaard is p...
| Subtitles: | Section 1: Problems and Perspectives in Kierkegaard’s Authorship |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
[2019]
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| In: |
Kierkegaard studies / Yearbook
Year: 2019, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 267-284 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history NBE Anthropology |
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| Summary: | Kierkegaard portrays his role as an author with the image of a prompter in "An Occasional Discourse" of 1847. A prompter in the theatre whispers not his own words, but a text by someone else already familiar to the actors on stage. This raises the question as to which text Kierkegaard is prompting. I seek to answer the question through a close reading of his imagery of authorial withdrawal in this discourse in connection with his repeated description of his writings as readings of the original text of individual human existence-relationships, the old familiar text handed down from the fathers. |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9792 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kierkegaard studies / Yearbook
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/kierke-2019-0011 |