Den Enkelte as Socio-Political in Kierkegaard Texts
Den Enkelte as Socio-Political in Kierkegaard Texts

Summary/Abstract: This study examines whether there is lexical evidence in Kierkegaard’s writings to support the view that den Enkelte is far removed from a conceptual mistaking of his thought as individualistic, in that it leads to a withdrawal from the social and political milieu to becoming a lonely rebel. It considers six selected texts from the Kierkegaard Corpus, for its linguistic and literary approach that employs computer applications to establish a conceptual-linguistic map of den Enkelte. Interpreting numerical data and analysing the map, the study offers an answer to the research question as to whether there is lexical evidence and considers the implication of the evidence for understanding related questions in Kierkegaard studies. In brief, it identifies 12 terms and provides another perspective from which to augment our grasp of a concept that Kierkegaard considers to be principal in Christianity as “existence-communication”.

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