L’auteur authentique et son contraire chez Søren Kierkegaard
As a religious author, Søren Kierkegaard was greatly interested in the question of communication, since his subject of predilection is marked by paradox: it is impossible to directly share the certainty which lies at the heart of intimacy and yet, it was necessary for him to talk about it, in order to confront a superficial Christianity that no longer perceived the problem of "becoming Christian". Within this thought, oriented towards subjectivity, he questioned himself less about the communication of objective knowledge than about that of a power: to become a singular individual, whose interiority is accessible to God. He developed his communication dialectic through the criticism of contemporary authors; thus he indirectly put his own writing to the test. In order to situate Kierkegaard's literary criticism, it is important, first and foremost, to highlight the commentary he made on his time, in which the socio-cultural conditions undeniably influenced the authors, especially those whose personalities were not well enough established to emancipate from them. The phenomenon of levelling in the era of the masses generates an ephemeral literature that pushes authors to conform to the "demands of their time", issued by the abstract entity of the "public". Such a state of affairs sparks confusion, but did not prevent some writers from developing a completely personal life-view, acting as a "center of gravity" for authentic work.
Individu Philosophy literature dialectics communication education ethics Individual author God