SYNOPSIS
Against Onto-Theology from Within: The Case of Søren Kierkegaard
Presenter: Dr. Leo Stan
November 21, 2008, at 7:30 pm,
Combination Room,
Trinity College, University of Toronto.
Abstract:
The core issue I shall try to tackle is whether the Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard belongs to the unfortunate history of what Martin Heidegger disapprovingly called the onto-theological nature of Western metaphysics. This topic represents the propaedeutic to a greater research project of mine, which targets the relevance of Kierkegaard's oeuvre to contemporary phenomenology of religion, as delineated particularly in the thought and authorship of Jean-Luc Marion and Michel Henry. In this presentation, after briefly describing the coordinates of the Heideggerian attack, I outline the reasons pro and against considering Kierkegaard an onto-theologian, based on his byzantine understanding of subjectivity's relationship to the divine . The second aim of my discussion is to defend the possibility that the Kierkegaardian critiques of onto-theology avant la lettre be more essential than what might include the Danish thinker within the onto-theological undercurrent of Western metaphysics.
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