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    The Concept of Writing, with Continual Reference to “Kierkegaard”
    The European Legacy 14 (5): 561-572. 2009.
    This essay explores the role that writing plays within the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard. Given that a majority of his commentators seemingly agree that his philosophy is thoroughly “Socratic,” emphasis on what Mallarmé once called the “insane game of writing” perhaps shows that this claim is somewhat inaccurate. For if the Socratic logos is defined according to the proximity of living speech, then the fact that Kierkegaard was, above anything else, a writer would perhaps position him much clo…Read more