The Anarchē of Spirit^277- ‘The Instant’, No. 5, July 27, 1855, Kierkegaard’s Attack Upon
‘Christendom’, trans. Walter Lowrie (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1968), p. 157. - JP 4:4711. Kierkegaard proposes “Spirit” as the paradoxical
“synthesis” of opposites which retains the alterity that he interprets
as lost within Hegelian “mediation” or “sublation” (Aufheben)—a
reconciliation which ultimately sublimates what Kierkegaard main-
tains as an irreducible “infinite qualitative difference” between the
human and the divine. See Mark C. Taylor, Journeys to Selfhood:
Hegel and Kierkegaard (Berkeley and Los Angeles, California and
London: University of California Press, 1980), pp. 170–171. - JP 2:1251.
- I discuss this further in Kierkegaard and the Self Before God,
160–165. - JP 2:1251.
- JP 2:1251.
- JP 2:1251.
- SUD, p. 68.
- SUD, pp. 68–70. See further my Kierkegaard and the Self Before
God, pp. 159ff. - This is analogous to Hegel’s view of the Unhappy Consciousness
as the internalisation of the Master-Slave dialectic: “the duplication
which formerly was divided between two individuals, the lord and
the bondsman, is now lodged in one [...] the Unhappy Consciousness
is the consciousness of self as a dual-natured, merely contradictory
being.” Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A. V. Miller (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1977), ‘B. Self-Consciousness’, IV, B, 206,
p. 126. See further my Kierkegaard and the Self Before God, pp.
160–164. - JP 6: 6761.
- SUD, p. 72.
- The Concept of Anxiety, ed. and trans. Reidar Thomte in collab-
oration with Albert B. Anderson (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton
University Press, 1980), p. 143*.