A potencial Kierkegaard

BINETTI, MARÍA JOSÉ

Northfield

Congreso; The Eighth International Kierkegaard Conference: The Wisdom of Kierkegaard: What Existential Lessons Have You Learned from Him?; 2018

Howard V. - Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College

There is a Kierkegaard?s book and a Kierkegaard?s idea that impacted on my personal existence and intellectual trajectory in a decisive and foundational way. The book is The concept of anxiety; the idea is freedom as infinite possibility to be able. My first encounter with them impacted on me with the empowerment of a renewing energy, forced me to deconstruct my old intellectualist notion of freedom as deliberate choice between given objects, and settled in me as the hard core that has supported and nourished not only my Kierkegaardian studies but also my entire intellectual construction and, even more deeply, my own freedom in the deployment of its constructions and deconstructions. I have now the chance to devote this paper to my first Kierkegaardian intuition, namely, to the concept of that infinite possibility to be able, capable of disrupting the speculative thinking, breaking the fixity of the perfect substance, overcoming the transcendence of pure act, and throwing the existence into an abysmal Abgrung, infinitely creative.