268 Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume 1
Edna H. Hong (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press,
1985), p. 30.
- SUD, 126.
- Kierkegaard, Christian Discourses, The Crisis and a Crisis in the
Life of an Actress, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997), p. 66–67. - Proudhon, System of Economical Contradictions or, The Philosophy
of Misery, trans. Benjamin R. Tucker (New York: Arno Press, 1972),
pp. 83–5 (hereafter PM). - Cf. the comment of Joakim Garff, ‘The Eyes of Argus: The Point
of View and Points of View on Kierkegaard’s Work as an Author’, in
Kierkegaard: A Critical Reader, ed. Jonathan Rée and Jane Chamberlain
(Malden MA: Blackwell, 1998), p. 77. For critique of this approach see
Sylvia Walsh, ‘Reading Kierkegaard With Kierkegaard Against Garff’,
Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter 38 (July 1999), p. 4–14. My tactic of
reading with and against Kierkegaard and Proudhon is, however, not a
hermeneutic of mistrust towards authorial/autobiographical intention
or self-determination but is rather an experimental attempt to think
dialectically with the theistic and anti-theistic ideas they present. - Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers, 7 volumes, ed. and trans. By
Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana
University Press, 1967–1978), volume 6, entry 6523. Hereafter
referred to as JP by volume and entry number (e.g. JP 6:6523). - He was dubbed such by Karl Grün. See further Paul Thomas, Karl
Marx and the Anarchists (Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2010),
p. 176. - Particularly as Proudhon is critical of atheism as not sufficiently
conscious of its dialectical relationship to theism. See further below. - Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity, trans. George
Elliot (New York: Prometheus Books, 1989), p. xvi. - Apophatic theology is a form of negative theology which ac-
knowledges the limits of language in relation to the otherness of
God. It appeals to the technique of Apophasis: meaning ‘to deny’, ‘to
speak away from’; contrasted with Kataphasis: meaning ‘to affirm’,
‘to speak down’, or bring down to the level of language. Key to this