I am researching Kierkegaard's view of faith, reason, and existential despair, with a focus on his concept of reason as it relates to that of the Enlightenment, Kant, Jacobi, and Hamann. My aim is to find a more positive relationship between reason and faith that goes beyond the Kierkegaardian disjunction, whilst also challenging his claim as to the inevitability of existential despair in a life without religious faith. The role of language will be a key consideration in the possible solution to the problem posed by Kierkegaard's call for the submerging of reason in the leap of faith. Insofar as language is linked to our faculty of reason, it…
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