I would like to hear more on Kierkegaard. I want to know why Elaine sees him as a postmodernist and what Bill sees him saying about the connection between spirit and self. He seems as though he was a complex and melancholy guy.
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I believe our intrepid benefactor, Suzanne, would rather we steer away from Kierkegaard. I understand that it can be a rather dry subject, so perhaps we could couch it in terms of contemporary life. In that sense, I agree that he was not a postmodernist. He's often identified as the precursor to the 20th century existentialists. In some ways, yes. But unlike them, he believed in an ultimate truth to which one answers, and for him, that is God. I'm not sure if Kierkegaard as himself or in one of his pseudenonymous roles ever defined God to anyone's satisfaction. He simply presupposes the existence of this ultimate being. I will try to approach the relationship he draws in Sickness Until Death between spirit and self, because that is a very interesting distinction, if one is willing to make it. As for the great leap, turns out he never used the term "leap of faith", or whatever phrase might have been its equivalent in Danish. So, in the next episode of my lecture, we'll discuss the meaning of faith, spirit and the self as applied by K. How exciting!
to that, i reply: pish-posh.
i believe poetry is in order.
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