A place for God: deconstructing love with Kierkegaard

There has been a significant increase in studies devoted to Søren Kierkegaard's Works of Love in contemporary Kierkegaard research. There are several good reasons why this is so. The single theme that dominates, though, is the relation between preferential love and neighborly love. Are they rec...

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Main Author: Lysemose, Kasper (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Nature B. V [2020]
In: International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 87, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-26
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855, Kjerlighedens gjerninger / Love / Deconstruction
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
VA Philosophy
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Summary:There has been a significant increase in studies devoted to Søren Kierkegaard's Works of Love in contemporary Kierkegaard research. There are several good reasons why this is so. The single theme that dominates, though, is the relation between preferential love and neighborly love. Are they reconcilable or not? The present paper recasts this discussion by situating Works of Love in the trajectory of deconstructive readings of community from Jean-Luc Nancy and onwards. It is divided into three sections. It is first shown that a deconstructive take on preferential and neighborly love indicates how any community has a place for love as its condition of (im)possibility. The opening of this place is then located in the Christian love-commandment. Finally, the expanse of this place is found in the spreading-out of the promise of love. The paper is conceived as a step towards letting love find its place in the analytics of being-there—as the phenomenon which opens the "there" without losing its "with." The paper concludes with a postscript that points towards this broader context.
ISSN:1572-8684
Contains:Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11153-019-09740-z