Kierkegaard's Dialectic of Inwardness [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 40 (3):570-572 (1987)
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Abstract

Kierkegaard and his various pseudonymous authors' maieutic, poetic, prolix, ironic, enigmatic, desultory, highly personal writing styles do not lend themselves well to standard philosophical scrutiny--at least as adjudged by somewhat mainstream Anglo-American criteria. Often herculean, hermeneutical effort is required to just comprehend Kierkegaard, because argument forms in his writings are not transparent, awaiting only the test of counterexamples or inference-rules. Nonetheless, ratiocination is present, however opaquely, opening up the scholarly danger of what Kierkegaard called the reader's grasping with his right hand what is held in the author's left hand.

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