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Kierkegaard's Religiousness C: A Defense, MEROLD WESTPHAL
Against two recent critiques, this paper defends the thesis that such later writings of Kierkegaard as Works of Love and Practice in Christianity introduce an understanding of Christianity that the author calls Religiousness C, into which Religiousness B as presented in Concluding Unscientific Postscript is teleologically suspended. For Religiousness B, Christ is the Paradox to be believed, while for Religiousness C, Christ is the Pattern, Paradigm, or Prototype to be imitated. In the former case, the offense to be overcome in becoming a Christian concerns the metaphysics and epistemology of the Incarnation. In the latter case, the offense involves the ethics and politics of the Incarnation. The paper argues that this Aufhebung is Hegelian only in a formal sense and, so far from compromising Kierkegaard's critique of Hegel, actually intensifies it.
No New Kierkegaard, GENIA SCHONBAUMSFELD
The aim of this paper is to contest an influential recent reading of one of Kierkegaard's most important books, the pseudonymously written Concluding Unscientific Postscript. According to the reading offered by James Conant, the Postscript is an "elaborate reductio" of the very philosophical project in which it itself appears to be engaged, namely, the project of attempting to clarify the nature of Christianity. This paper shows that Conant's position depends upon four interrelated theses concerning...