Kierkegaard as Negative Theologian is concerned with Kierkegaard’s “apophaticism”—the elements of Kierkegaard’s thought which emphasize the incapacity of human reason and the hiddenness of God. Apophaticism is an important underlying strand in Kierkegaard’s thought and colors many of his key concepts. Despite its importance, it has until now been largely ignored by Kierkegaardian scholarship.
David R. Law argues that apophatic elements can be detected in every aspect of Kierkegaard’s thought and that, despite proceeding from different presuppositions, he can therefore be regarded as a negative theologian. The book concludes by showing that Kierkegaard’s refusal to make the transition from the via negativa to the via mystica means that he is even more apophatic than the negative theologians themselves.
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