Ways of Dying: the Double Death in Kierkegaard and Blanchot

TY - JOUR

T1 - Ways of Dying

T2 - the Double Death in Kierkegaard and Blanchot

AU - Michaelsen, Cathrine Bjørnholt

PY - 2014/6/1

Y1 - 2014/6/1

N2 - Focusing mainly on Christian Discourses and the discourse "At a Graveside," this paper seeks to unfold and discuss the various ways of dying depicted by Kierkegaard. By engaging Maurice Blanchot's conception of a "double death," I will argue that different relations to death are attributed to the pagan and to the believer. Special attention is drawn to the divergent temporalities that apparently define the possibilities and impossibilities of dying. This approach also involves an investigation of the "dispersion" and the "contemporaneity" pertaining to the dying pagan and the dying believer, respectively.

AB - Focusing mainly on Christian Discourses and the discourse "At a Graveside," this paper seeks to unfold and discuss the various ways of dying depicted by Kierkegaard. By engaging Maurice Blanchot's conception of a "double death," I will argue that different relations to death are attributed to the pagan and to the believer. Special attention is drawn to the divergent temporalities that apparently define the possibilities and impossibilities of dying. This approach also involves an investigation of the "dispersion" and the "contemporaneity" pertaining to the dying pagan and the dying believer, respectively.

KW - Faculty of Theology

U2 - 10.1515/kierke-2014-0112

DO - 10.1515/kierke-2014-0112

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1430-5372

SP - 255

EP - 283

JO - Kierkegaard Studies

JF - Kierkegaard Studies

ER -