Kierkegaard understood his thinking as philosophy confronting its own end. In campaigning against the existential amnesia of the 19th century, he revived the intellectual figure of a kind of philosophizing with roots in both the Socratic method and the apophatic reflections of Meister Eckhart. The Young Hegelians' philosophy of action thereby became action of the text. The aim: existentially to move the reader.
Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal, Christian-Albrechts-Universit , Kiel, Germany. |
