The Influence of Kierkegaard in the Reconstruction of Post-Modern Subjectivity

MARÍA JOSÉ BINETTI

Northfield

Congreso; Sixth International Kierkegaard Conference; 2010

Hong Kierkegaard Library of St. Olaf College

There is a reading of Post-modern subjectivity considered in terms of a relativistic and atheistic nihilism, but there is also another reading of it in terms of an absolute and divine, incommensurable and infinite reality, whose excess of actuality overcomes the limits of abstract understanding. Concerning the latter interpretation, Kierkegaard appears as the fundamental thinker, inspiring several Post-modern authors, such as J. Derrida, G. Deleuze, J. Caputo or M. Taylor. The contemporary resort to Kierkegaardian categories of repetition, singularity, absolute difference, possibility, paradox, moment, religion, faith, or being-in-the-between proves only too well the importance and current influence of the Danish Philosopher.