…of a pseudo-Christian who you laugh and he says, how can you laugh when our Lord Jesus suffered on a cross? No! Kierkegaard saw this Jesus is, in some deep spiritual sense, a comical figure. You know what Kierkegaard takes as an example of Christ?…

…Lord Jesus suffered on a cross? No! Kierkegaard saw this Jesus is, in some deep spiritual sense, a comical figure. You know what Kierkegaard takes as an example of Christ? Gilbert E. Chesterton even saw it better. He hid his mirth. He hid his sense of…

…in competence. In our human universe, power, in the sense of exerting authority, is something much more mysterious, even irrational. Kierkegaard, my and everybody's favorite theologist, wrote, if a child says he will obey his father because his father is a…

…logic to Christ himself. Christ was justified by the fact of being God's son, not by his competencies or capacities. As Kierkegaard put it, every good student of theology can put things better than Christ. There is no such authority in nature. Lobsters…

…of Hegel. And this is, in a sense, continued in the beginning of the science of logic because, I mean, I think Kierkegaard was the first who noticed that the science of logic of Hegel begins very strangely because Hegel himself raises the question, can…

…begin by basically simply getting rid of all presuppositions and then of the presupposition that this is a presupposition? And then Kierkegaard basically said, well, that is just like infinite regress, right? And so how, right, because you always want to get…

…says, well, the only thing by which we can begin is a resolve, an entschluss in German, a kind of decision. And Kierkegaard basically thinks, well, that is because Hegel couldn't get out of this shitty, endless, infinitely endless loop, right? He had to…

…of... And also what you then elaborated on that regarding the temporality, the suspension, very much reminded me of Kierkegaard, right? And Kierkegaard, who is, and you talked about the mode of representation of philosophizing, so apparently with Kierkegaard…

…what you then elaborated on that regarding the temporality, the suspension, very much reminded me of Kierkegaard, right? And Kierkegaard, who is, and you talked about the mode of representation of philosophizing, so apparently with Kierkegaard we are entering…

…lot, no? So if on the other hand, you know, he's not yours, but you were once their colony. I mean, Denmark, no? Kierkegaard also was well aware of this, you know? I written a biography of, how do you pronounce it correctly? Kierkegaard, okay, we in…

…Denmark, no? Kierkegaard also was well aware of this, you know? I written a biography of, how do you pronounce it correctly? Kierkegaard, okay, we in the corrupted West say Kierkegaard. He was, I think, I read in a biography once, called by the king,…

…of this, you know? I written a biography of, how do you pronounce it correctly? Kierkegaard, okay, we in the corrupted West say Kierkegaard. He was, I think, I read in a biography once, called by the king, and like, what lessons should I learn? And he…

…in competence. In our human universe, power, in the sense of exerting authority, is something much more mysterious, even irrational. Kierkegaard, my and everybody's favorite theologist, wrote, if a child says he will obey his father because his father is a…

…logic to Christ himself. Christ was justified by the fact of being God's son, not by his competencies or capacities. As Kierkegaard put it, every good student of theology can put things better than Christ. There is no such authority in nature. Lobsters…

…of Christ and resurrection. And that's why I am to put it like this for Paul. You know what Paul saw clearly? That Kierkegaard also repeatedly clearly that the message of Christ is not what he claims. What he claims is a bullshit that every average…

…something? Of course. You can stop me. But I agree with you, but in this sense, I think the big opposition, and Kierkegaard himself knew it very well in his philosophical fragments of how it's usually said, it's precisely Socrates versus Jesus Christ. I'm…

…very personal at two levels. First, Recently, a wonderful book was published with, okay, at least it's good as a collection, Kierkegaard and humor. For Kierkegaard, also, humor was crucial, not in the simple sense you have to be popular and to introduce…

…levels. First, Recently, a wonderful book was published with, okay, at least it's good as a collection, Kierkegaard and humor. For Kierkegaard, also, humor was crucial, not in the simple sense you have to be popular and to introduce Christianity, blah, blah,…

…also, humor was crucial, not in the simple sense you have to be popular and to introduce Christianity, blah, blah, but Kierkegaard has this tremendous vision of Christianity as a comedy. Not comedy in the simple sense of Dante Divina Comedia, comedy is…

…Dante Divina Comedia, comedy is what ends well. But in a more radical sense that incarnation, embodiment, it's a comical event. Kierkegaard has this wonderful idea that, imagine, from far a king is coming, and then, you know, this stupid elementary comical…

…elementary comical scene, and then instead of a king entering, When trumpets announce it, people looking, a small dog enters, no? Kierkegaard says, my God, this is incarnation. You expect a big God, you get an ordinary guy there. That this gap between…

…I make a list, you are the best and I will choose you. No, love has the structure of theology. Where as Kierkegaard, my favorite guy, said, to choose your religion, It's not that you compare different religions and then follow, like, I compare Buddhism,…

…Hegelian, Antagonism always involves three points, never two. That's why, as Naden Dolar used this example years ago from Kierkegaard, where Kierkegaard quotes a wonderful, some Danish comic writer who said, all people can be classified into officers,…

…always involves three points, never two. That's why, as Naden Dolar used this example years ago from Kierkegaard, where Kierkegaard quotes a wonderful, some Danish comic writer who said, all people can be classified into officers, housemates, and chimney…

…fall into it and you don't know even why. And in this sense, love is like authentic religion. In authentic religion, Kierkegaard, my favorite theologist, said in a beautiful way that it's an obscenity to say, I compare different religions, oh, arguments for…

…That's the idea. And this would be for me the proper, but we can talk about later on, Kierkegaardian. Poesiechen. Søren Kierkegaard, der dänische Philosoph. Ganz kurz vielleicht, interessiert mich. Ganz kurz. No, no, it would be too much because I would…

…really faithful to Christ are useless. They will not participate in the struggle. And this is the deep insight of truly great theologies. Kierkegaard says, if you don't doubt God all the time, you are not a true Christian and so on. You know that in a…

…can be given specifically. in this sense to link since these guys are Danish people to link with the obvious person with Kierkegaard whose formulas of religion when he says God is not something we relate to God is relating itself and all those formulas…

…Hegel really aimed at. It's unique in his reading of French Revolution. We have on the one hand liberals, Kant and Kierkegaard. against 93. The first phase was good, just bourgeois freedom. Ah, Jacobin's bad, terror. No? And then you have outright…

…same, simple and repeated. One should recall here Kierkegaard's wonderful short text on the difference between genius and apostle, where Kierkegaard defines genius as an individual who is able to express or articulate his inner wealth, what is in him more…

…geniuses. Your president, beloved, Donald Trump, he regularly designates himself as a stable genius, I think, you know. We need what Kierkegaard called the opposition to genius apostle. You are just a bearer of truth. You repeat again and again the same…

…to understand the parable. You know who knew this so that you will not accuse me of going into cheap obscenities. It's Kierkegaard who emphasized this. He has the most beautiful metaphor for what Christ's arrival on earth means. He said, imagine there is…

…shouldn't be really democratic. It meant too much of a, you know, forum matters. Forum matters how you do it here. It's like Kierkegaard says about the father, if he has to be good in order to have authority. No, no, no, Kierkegaard has, but Kierkegaard…

…do it here. It's like Kierkegaard says about the father, if he has to be good in order to have authority. No, no, no, Kierkegaard has, but Kierkegaard is a genius immediately. He goes to Jesus Christ also, you know. He first says to say that father is…

…It's like Kierkegaard says about the father, if he has to be good in order to have authority. No, no, no, Kierkegaard has, but Kierkegaard is a genius immediately. He goes to Jesus Christ also, you know. He first says to say that father is a... I obey…

…a... I obey my father because he's intelligent and bright. This is a blasphemy, you know. But then he, that's my Kierkegaard, he goes and says the same about Christ. That what Christ says are platitudes which, Kierkegaard's word I'm quoting, every average…

…maybe, the person who kindly asked the question, what I'm doing now is trying to apply this to Bible. I think that, and Kierkegaard saw this clearly, that crucifixion is a joke. New Testament is a comedy. It's absolutely crucial to see this, to read the…

…thing itself. Nature itself is incomplete. We should abandon all this metaphoric stuff. of, you know, which humans, it's from Hegel to Kierkegaard you find it, which humans are animals sick to death and so on. No, animals are already sick to death. Do we…

…to be very precise in what does it mean to authentically believe. This is why the greatest theologists, like the Danish one, Kierkegaard, were aware that authentic belief always has to be on the edge of disbelief. Probably there is no God, but I'm crazy…

…crazy? This is superstition. Why do you have it there? Do you believe in it? Niels Bohr, no wonder he was allegedly reading Kierkegaard, gives the perfect answer. He says, I'm a scientist, of course I don't believe in it, but I have it there because I…

…convinced that whichever religion you choose, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, which is not a religion, they convinced me. No, as Kierkegaard put it nicely, The true religious position is not, my God, Christianity has the best arguments, I believe in…

…really faithful to Christ are useless. They will not participate in the struggle. And this is the deep insight of truly great theologies. Kierkegaard says, if you don't doubt God all the time, you are not a true Christian, and so on. You know that, in a…

…object that is remainder or excess over finitude? What if finitude is an attempt to escape the excess of immortality. I think Kierkegaard was right here, but for the wrong reason. When he understood the claim that we, humans, are just mortal beings who…

…who disappear after their biological death as an easy way to escape the ethical responsibility that comes with the immortal soul. Kierkegaard was right for the wrong reason. Insofar as that immortality with the divine and ethical part of a human being. But…

…claimed that... Cogito was the subject of the unconscious. We take the concept of repetition, his references to Aristotle and Kierkegaard. We take the concept of transference, he always refers you to Socrates, to Plato's symposium. The theory for discourse is…

…can be given straightaway. In this sense, to link, since these guys are Danish people, to link with the obvious person, with Kierkegaard, whose formulas of religion, when he says, God is not something we relate to, God is relating itself. And all those…

…repetition. But, and here, let me call in this brutal throwing together of two totally disparate thinkers in the field of Kierkegaard and Freud, as opposite as they are, they both, of course, at a totally different level. propose a notion of repetition…

…you get the dimension of the symbol. And my point would have been that here we can maybe oppose Hegel and Kierkegaard. While in Goethe... As in Hegel, repetition generates meaning. For the post-Hegelian Kierkegaard, there is just repetition, no rise of new…

…here we can maybe oppose Hegel and Kierkegaard. While in Goethe... As in Hegel, repetition generates meaning. For the post-Hegelian Kierkegaard, there is just repetition, no rise of new meaning. Repetition is asserted as such in its mechanic quality. So now…

…Schelling, Schopenhauer, and so on, or even Nietzsche, or, for example, for Marx, the actual positive social process of production, Kierkegaard, the singularity of beliefs, so you have some positivity which should be the foundation of the abstract. I claim…

…you ask because I think here we, atheists, materialists, can learn from really intelligent theologists, really radical, like, for example, Kierkegaard, who makes it very clear, who totally, in his maybe greatest work, which strangely is not even written in…

…to be a true atheist really a radical atheist but I think the least one can add to it is that it's also impossible as Kierkegaard knew very well to be a believer to really believe it to be a believer I would like to find a believer who when God…

…and so on. Kierkegaard's notion of sickness unto death relies on the same tension one should be very careful here Kierkegaard is not saying being mortal causes anxiety, it's horrible no, Kierkegaard's point is the opposite one the truly traumatic, unbearable…

…who couldn't come here, unfortunately, Mladen Dollard. He takes, you remember that, one of the most famous quotes from Kierkegaard. that Kierkegaard quotes Danish humorist, whatever, who says that all of humanity can be subdivided into all people, all…

…come here, unfortunately, Mladen Dollard. He takes, you remember that, one of the most famous quotes from Kierkegaard. that Kierkegaard quotes Danish humorist, whatever, who says that all of humanity can be subdivided into all people, all human persons,…

…and if anything, I would be tempted to say that it's not even three, it's the repetition. That's why I like Kierkegaard. You know, when Kierkegaard speaks about aesthetic, ethical, religious, it's not really three, it's two. You have the opposition of…

…be tempted to say that it's not even three, it's the repetition. That's why I like Kierkegaard. You know, when Kierkegaard speaks about aesthetic, ethical, religious, it's not really three, it's two. You have the opposition of ethics and aesthetics, and…

…to repeat what was already said. I agree here. And it has great theological consequences with someone that we both like, like Kierkegaard. and somebody else who maybe we don't both like in the same way, like Gilles Deleuze, who said very nicely that…

…is the death of God himself. I cannot emphasize enough this point, how And Hegel saw this clearly. And after Hegel, Kierkegaard, this properly comical, comedy aspect of incarnation. You know that Kierkegaard in some of his, I forgot, I'm sorry, where,…

…how And Hegel saw this clearly. And after Hegel, Kierkegaard, this properly comical, comedy aspect of incarnation. You know that Kierkegaard in some of his, I forgot, I'm sorry, where, openly uses this comparison with theater. You know, like fanfares at…

…at the court arrive a majestic king. And then behind the curtain, a small ridiculous dog or a dwarf enters. That's for Kierkegaard, the incarnation. The properly Christian choice is the leap of faith by means of which we take the risk to fully engage…

…individual, nobody crucified between two bandits and so on, this is God himself. Even Caputo professes his love for Kierkegaard. But where is here Kierkegaard's central insight, his insistence on the paradox of Christianity? Eternity is only accessible through…

…But also, very much so. Look, there are so many things I love about Denmark. Let's forget about the obvious hits like Lego, Kierkegaard, and so on. But then you... Sometimes I even had to remind my Danish friends that I think that already late 20s and…

…Even with countries. I don't think that... Even with? Countries. I don't think that in order to understand Hans Christian Andersen, Kierkegaard, name them, I have to know all the Danish history from prehistoric Vikings, whatever. It's on the contrary. If I…

…need to know your literature, films to understand the country. I'm against historicism here. In the case of, since you mentioned Kierkegaard, in the case of Kierkegaard, what interests you in particular, at least one aspect, is the fact that he was so…

…films to understand the country. I'm against historicism here. In the case of, since you mentioned Kierkegaard, in the case of Kierkegaard, what interests you in particular, at least one aspect, is the fact that he was so able to have personas. Yeah,…

…we agree on this formula, that... We have to, you know, it's this old paradox that was seen nicely in theological terms by Kierkegaard that the only way to become faithful to, to remain faithful to Marx is to move further, to repeat, but repeat in the…

…stupid, of course I don't believe it. Then the friend persisted, but why do you have it there? Ah, Niels Bohr was a reader of Kierkegaard. His answer was, of course I don't believe it, but I have it there because I was told that it works even if you…

…inexistence of the big other. Again, here we should bear in mind that this movie is a Danish movie. And, of course, Kierkegaard is always in the background. The detective, Morg, no, it's clear in the film already, is... this is officially declared in the…

…the film, suffers a terminal depression. And I claim this terminal depression is precisely the form of what Kierkegaard called infinite resignation, the crucial step towards the authentic religious experience. For Kierkegaard, the renunciation, the sacrificial…

…precisely the form of what Kierkegaard called infinite resignation, the crucial step towards the authentic religious experience. For Kierkegaard, the renunciation, the sacrificial renunciation, cannot be part of an exchange with God. We sacrifice all the totality…

…renunciation, cannot be part of an exchange with God. We sacrifice all the totality of our life for nothing. Quote from Kierkegaard, listen, the contradiction which arrests our understanding of God is that a man is required to make the greatest possible…

…focuses on two strange bad fellows, which are part of the same, sorry to use this obscene word, spiritual constellation, Kierkegaard and Freud. I think Deleuze is right in emphasizing that there are two aspects to so-called post-Hegelian or post-idealist…

…is maybe even the less important part of the post-Hegelian break. What is truly new is repetition. Repetition in Kierkegaard, it's crucial. You know that the whole Kierkegaard edifice is Christianity, religion as repetition against philosophy for Kierkegaard.…

…post-Hegelian break. What is truly new is repetition. Repetition in Kierkegaard, it's crucial. You know that the whole Kierkegaard edifice is Christianity, religion as repetition against philosophy for Kierkegaard. From Socrates or Plato rather to Hegel, like…

…Kierkegaard, it's crucial. You know that the whole Kierkegaard edifice is Christianity, religion as repetition against philosophy for Kierkegaard. From Socrates or Plato rather to Hegel, like erinnerung, rememoration. And, of course, in Freud, it's absolutely…

…say That is to say, Hegel's point is precisely that king is a pure symbolic authority. As Hegel says literally, repeating Kierkegaard, okay, Kierkegaard comes after, who repeats whom, that the duty of Hegel is not to understand anything. His bureaucrats have…

…dimension of Freudian psychoanalysis is through a reference to philosophy. All philosophers are needed. When Lacan talks about repetition, it's Kierkegaard. Lacan talks about surplus surplus enjoyment it's Marx and so on and so on and so on it's a much…

…Or even, this is why, I don't have time to develop it fully, but this is why I think Hegel, contrary to what Kierkegaard thought, in a too simplified criticism of Hegel, I claim that Kierkegaard was more Hegelian than he thought. Hegel was fully aware…

…is why I think Hegel, contrary to what Kierkegaard thought, in a too simplified criticism of Hegel, I claim that Kierkegaard was more Hegelian than he thought. Hegel was fully aware of this idea, of this fundamental anti-Platonic insight of Christianity,…

…Hegelian than he thought. Hegel was fully aware of this idea, of this fundamental anti-Platonic insight of Christianity, where, as Kierkegaard saw it correctly, that that you need a totally contingent event, Jesus Christ, and even if this was a contingent…

…it is rather to them that everything is permitted. It is the so-called fundamentalists who practice a perverted version of what Kierkegaard called the religious suspension of the ethical. On a God's mission, one is allowed to kill thousands. So why do we…

…Christ died and is resurrected. All other things, who cares about them? And incidentally, the same point was made already by Kierkegaard, or later, who says openly, as to what he says, Christ is saying mostly banalities. Kierkegaard puts it acidly, every…

…same point was made already by Kierkegaard, or later, who says openly, as to what he says, Christ is saying mostly banalities. Kierkegaard puts it acidly, every student of theology today says, is able to put it better than Jesus Christ. If you look for…

…not stupid, I'm a scientist. But why do you have it there? Niels Bohr gave a perfect answer. No wonder he was a reader of Kierkegaard also. He said, I don't believe in it, of course, but I have it there because I was told that it works even if you…

…not stupid, I'm a scientist. But why do you have it there? Niels Bohr gave a perfect answer. No wonder he was a reader of Kierkegaard also. He said, I don't believe in it, of course, but I have it there because I was told that it works even if you…

…There is, in passionate love, a refined reverser, which is the similar one as you find with some intelligent Christian theologists, like Kierkegaard, when he says, it's an obscenity to say, I'm a Christian because I read the arguments in the Bible and the…

…he says, it's an obscenity to say, I'm a Christian because I read the arguments in the Bible and the arguments convinced me. Kierkegaard uses the same example for paternal authority. my father is a bright guy, he gave me good reason so I obey him. No,…

…uses the same example for paternal authority. my father is a bright guy, he gave me good reason so I obey him. No, Kierkegaard says as a theologian. No, it's the other way around. he discovers the laws of history, oh my god, proletarian class will win,…

…do, a wise guy will come and... But it's so interesting that a philosopher should be against wisdom. We all are. Your Kierkegaard knew this. Kierkegaard was anti-wise men par excellence. Wisdom is pagan. I'm not going into my Stalinist stuff, but what I…

…guy will come and... But it's so interesting that a philosopher should be against wisdom. We all are. Your Kierkegaard knew this. Kierkegaard was anti-wise men par excellence. Wisdom is pagan. I'm not going into my Stalinist stuff, but what I want to do,…

…I say, that's my point. You can sell it as a wisdom. This is a wisdom. And if from no one else, from your Kierkegaard, you can learn this, that whatever Jesus Christ was, he wasn't a wise guy. He was a provocative man. It reminds me of something…

…you know. What do you want? There is no real wisdom as such as this cheating. But this you should learn from your Kierkegaard, my God. Or Kierkegaard, how do I know? The basic Christian gesture is this, you know, wager on a crazy, mad decision, you…

…do you want? There is no real wisdom as such as this cheating. But this you should learn from your Kierkegaard, my God. Or Kierkegaard, how do I know? The basic Christian gesture is this, you know, wager on a crazy, mad decision, you know. But let me…

…are, not once we are already established as humans, but what we are in the eyes of the apes, as it were. Kierkegaard would have called this the universal in-becoming. And here everything depends on this. For example, another example, if you know a little…

…you don't exist, in a way. And here, I want to evoke, again, he was a genius, a wonderful passage from Kierkegaard, from his concept of anxiety, where Kierkegaard described mockingly how Simon Tornasensis, he was a 13th century scholastic theologist from…

…I want to evoke, again, he was a genius, a wonderful passage from Kierkegaard, from his concept of anxiety, where Kierkegaard described mockingly how Simon Tornasensis, he was a 13th century scholastic theologist from Paris, And quote Kierkegaard, this guy,…

…of anxiety, where Kierkegaard described mockingly how Simon Tornasensis, he was a 13th century scholastic theologist from Paris, And quote Kierkegaard, this guy, Simon, quote, thought that God must be obliged to him, to Simon, to this theologist, for having…

…the proof of his existence will fail. So horrible, I don't exist. But he fears even more that the proof will not fail. Kierkegaard, of course, talks about all this in a mocking way. But nonetheless, I claim that if we move from the logical level to…

…one. The very form of confirming the monarch's absolute power undermines it. And the political parallel is here crucial, since Kierkegaard himself resorts to the comparison between God and king. God, exposed to the philosopher's whimsy wit, is like a king…

…No, I think we should rehabilitate the mortal sin of sloth, which can also function as boredom. You know, in either or. Kierkegaard has a wonderful passage where he says boredom is the ultimate sin, is the explanation of entire human history. God was…

…warmly, Lise Bach-Hansen for inviting me back. to Copenhagen, a city that I've learned to love. And last year we spoke about Kierkegaard, and this year we'll speak about Kierkegaard as well with Slavoj Žižek. Right, this is a surprise to you, but I…

…back. to Copenhagen, a city that I've learned to love. And last year we spoke about Kierkegaard, and this year we'll speak about Kierkegaard as well with Slavoj Žižek. Right, this is a surprise to you, but I figured we would do that. Now, Slavoj. First…

…much so. Absolutely. But look, there are so many things I love about Denmark. Let's forget about the obvious hits like Lego, Kierkegaard, and so on. But then you... Sometimes I even had to remind my Danish friends that... I think that already late 20s…

…Even with countries. I don't think that... Even with? Countries. I don't think that in order to understand Hans Christian Andersen, Kierkegaard, name them, I have to know all the Danish history from prehistoric Vikings, whatever. It's on the contrary. If I…

…need to know your literature, Films to understand the country. I'm against historicism here. And in the case of, since you mentioned Kierkegaard, in the case of Kierkegaard, what interests you in particular, at least one aspect, is the fact that he was so…

…title, Caesar as the title. So Hegel's point... is idealization. But what about what we find in thinkers as opposite as Kierkegaard and Freud? Wiederholungszwang or Kierkegaard's repetition, a kind of a pure repetition. And my point is that It's not that…

…aufhebung, but also not in the sense of doing the same as Hegel, but, let me put it in this way, as Kierkegaard would have put it, mobilizing Hegelian potentials in today's world. And here, to avoid a misunderstanding, for example, apropos pebble or…

…the necessity. In what sense? Let's do a little bit of a dialectic of classification. Okay, our teacher here is the greatest, Kierkegaard. He proposed in his Fear and Trembling The most famous example of a crazy classification, maybe you know it. I quote,…

…is a wonderful topic, I claim. All these paradoxes of classification, like, I think... half a year ago I already spoken about Kierkegaard in, I forgot which text, fuck it. He refers ironically to a famous classification of some Danish humor writer where he…

…like, the true subject is fidelity to a cause. Love, freedom, science, whatever. I claim, and I'm here a good Christian, Kierkegaard developed this idea that know that The initial constitutive experience of subjectivity is boredom, or the scene of, how do…

…do I mean by this? You get a wonderful, it's an orgy, passage, I don't have time to read it to you now, from Kierkegaard. where he goes into how the whole history of the world creation is the story of boredom. God was bored, he created the world.…

…I don't know if I already talked about this the last time I was here, but for example, recently I found in Kierkegaard an incredible passage where he mocks, but it's obviously fascinated, by some medieval theologist, who claims that he can prove, okay,…

…God is trembling there, oh my God, what if they prove that I don't exist? Will I disappear or whatever? And then Kierkegaard has a wonderful metaphor. He says God is here like a constitutional monarch, trembling like, will the assembly... agree to his…

…maybe, first, second, disappoint you. My idea is more the Kierkegaardian distinction between genius and apostle. And my favorite Kierkegaard is that philosophical fragment where he develops how the ancient have geniuses, creative guy who knows, and Christians…

…creative guy who knows, and Christians have Apostles who are just like... He describes in terrifying terms Jesus Christ. I like this Kierkegaard. He says Jesus Christ is like a postman. He was carrying a message, but he was too stupid to know You know,…

…anti-Platonism. Plato subordinates singular existence, its uniqueness, to the universal. This point was developed mostly by Kierkegaard, like Socrates versus Christ. Socrates, universal wisdom, Christ, uniqueness of singular existence. Then we have Heideggerian…

…of course. The idea is that, this is Kierkegaard's idea, that only with Christianity something new happens. Christianity is event. Kierkegaard develops this very nicely. How? The death of Christ is precisely a temporary event which can be even empirically…

…materialist theology? Recently, I was rereading Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety, where he evokes a wonderful, tremendous materialist idea. He, Kierkegaard, evokes, this is my guy, Simon Tornasensis, a 13th century scholastic who tried to develop a logical proof…

…will happen to me if they will not succeed in proving that? I exist, and then with his incredible political sense, Kierkegaard says this story of this guy who thought that God's existence itself depends on will we philosophers prove his existence. This…

…you ask because I think here we, atheists, materialists, can learn from really intelligent theologists, really radical, like, for example, Kierkegaard, who makes it very clear, who totally, in his maybe greatest work, which strangely is not even written in…

…but is how to define this difficult human love. And here I am at the same time a Kierkegaardian or whatever you want. And Kierkegaard said some so crazy things. Like when he said the true Christian love for a neighbor is you should love him as if he…

…to repeat what was already said. I agree here, and it has great theological consequences with someone that we both like, like Kierkegaard, and somebody else who maybe we don't both like in the same way, like Gilles Deleuze, who said very nicely that…

…is the death of god himself i cannot emphasize enough this point how And Hegel saw this clearly. And after Hegel, Kierkegaard, this properly comical, comedy aspect of incarnation. You know that Kierkegaard in some of his, I forgot, I'm sorry, where, openly…

…how And Hegel saw this clearly. And after Hegel, Kierkegaard, this properly comical, comedy aspect of incarnation. You know that Kierkegaard in some of his, I forgot, I'm sorry, where, openly uses this comparison with theater. You know, like fanfares at…

…at the court arrive a majestic king. And then behind the curtain, a small ridiculous dog or a dwarf enters. That's for Kierkegaard, the incarnation. The properly Christian choice is the leap of faith by means of which we take the risk to fully engage…

…individual, nobody crucified between two bandits and so on. This is God himself. Even Caputo professes his love for Kierkegaard, but where is here Kierkegaard's central insight, his insistence on the paradox of Christianity? Eternity is only accessible through…

…Or even, this is why, I don't have time to develop it fully, but this is why I think Hegel, contrary to what Kierkegaard thought, in a too simplified criticism of Hegel, I claim that Kierkegaard was more Hegelian than he thought. Hegel was fully aware…

…is why I think Hegel, contrary to what Kierkegaard thought, in a too simplified criticism of Hegel, I claim that Kierkegaard was more Hegelian than he thought. Hegel was fully aware of this idea, of this fundamental anti-Platonic insight of Christianity,…

…Hegelian than he thought. Hegel was fully aware of this idea, of this fundamental anti-Platonic insight of Christianity, where, as Kierkegaard saw it, correctly. you need a totally contingent event, Jesus Christ, and even if this was a contingent human being,…

…point, you can also unconditionally explode. It's something which... It's divine in the sense, more in the Kierkegaardian sense, where Kierkegaard opposes, as we all know, ethical stage to religious stage. In the ethical stage, you are bound by universal…

…uniqueness of singular existence. He subordinates the singular to the universal. This anti-Platonism has a Christian version, Kierkegaard. versus Christ, and an atheist one, Sartre, existence precedes essence. Then we have the Heideggerian anti-Platonism, Plato…

…repetition in, okay, it's tautological, in post-Hegelian sense. By this I mean two authors which are very strange bedfellows. Kierkegaard and Freud. Kierkegaard repetition and Freudian compulsion to repeat, where is the difference? That precisely in these two…

…it's tautological, in post-Hegelian sense. By this I mean two authors which are very strange bedfellows. Kierkegaard and Freud. Kierkegaard repetition and Freudian compulsion to repeat, where is the difference? That precisely in these two cases, we do have…

…predominant, idea that Hegel is the deadlock of absolute idealism and that the insight of all great post-Hegelian figures, Leipziger, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Marx, is that The self-movement of idea is just a theater of shadows, specters, ideas that we need…

…shadow, real productive life of individuals where things really happen. For Schopenhauer, similar, the will, the irrational will. For Kierkegaard, the uniqueness of individual and his belief. But I think there is another aspect which I already mentioned which…

…we believe, but yet that is inauthentic? Yes, and again, I think that the most radical theological tradition knew it. To quote Kierkegaard, you know, he said, we never believe, we just believe to believe. But for an authentic, even Christian, I claim, this…

…immortal. Immortality is presented as the ultimate nightmare. And you know who was aware of this? People usually don't get it. Kierkegaard, when he speaks about sickness unto death, he means also, read him closely, what he basically means is the exact…

…first one is... How exactly do we understand anamnesis? Because, like, you know that here I'm more on the side of Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard wrote a wonderful book. It's one of his best philosophical crumbles, fragments, no? Where he precisely opposes a truth,…

…one is... How exactly do we understand anamnesis? Because, like, you know that here I'm more on the side of Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard wrote a wonderful book. It's one of his best philosophical crumbles, fragments, no? Where he precisely opposes a truth, we…

…square. You know that Plato. You want to play the game. Sorry. What I want to say is that, but then for Kierkegaard, Christianity is not remembering. its event, it's wonderfully done. So again, on the other hand, you know where you have Lacan's wonderful…

…what we really miss is the most radical dimension of what we humans are. Here, in spite of their opposition, Kierkegaard and Hegel share the same point of opposing becoming, werden, and being The standard opposition, animal-human, is formulated from the…

…unfortunately way too much part of that horrible post-Hegelian reaction. which you find in different ways, in Marx, in Kierkegaard, in Schopenhauer, Schelling, that you say, oh, philosophy is caught into its own narcissistic, masturbatory, Marx uses the…

…of ideas we need to find a real life foundation for Marx real life productive process for Schelling and Schopenhauer the willing for Kierkegaard existential belief and so on and so on I think that, and here I follow the one who is also not an idiot,…

…a convincing point to this, that after Hegel, we have this famous post-Hegelian break. the whole series of figures, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, but also Freud, the rise of mathematical natural sciences that simply after this post Hegelian break you can…

…which then, of course, later develops in Levin's philosophy, in life philosophy. Then, in a similar, although different way, it's Kierkegaard, of course, with him, it's not this stupid. decision, leap of faith and so on. For Kierkegaard also, this is…

…although different way, it's Kierkegaard, of course, with him, it's not this stupid. decision, leap of faith and so on. For Kierkegaard also, this is the intense actuality of subjective authenticity which cannot in any way be covered up by this abstract…

…all the field of intra-metaphysical struggles. You know, the story of... All attempts to break out of metaphysics, from Kierkegaard to Marx, from Nietzsche to Heidegger, from Levinas to Claude Lévi-Strauss, ultimately remain within the horizon of the…

…My first encounter with Zizek's work occurred back in grad school, where I suppose all these things begin. I was trying to use Kierkegaard as a theoretical model for an argument about modernism that I was trying to make in my dissertation. And one of my…

…my advisors was just absolutely adamant that such a thing could not be done. And she said that to have a dissertation with Kierkegaard, Gertrude Stein, and Conrad would just be weird. And as you can tell, I'm scarred for life. So I spent many days…

…and had typed it out in its entirety in the email. To my delight, there enough on page 211, Zizek makes the connection between Kierkegaard and Monardini that I was seeking. So I wrote back to Jim, this is great. This is great, but what does it mean?…

…it mean? What does Zizek mean? To which Jim replied, and you'll excuse me, who the hell knows? But if Zizek is writing about Kierkegaard, then you know it's important and you can do it too. And this is the same friend, I should say, who was given a…

…it, I claim. So the same goes for Stalinist show trials and so on and so on. In this sense, I claim, and Kierkegaard knew this, Christianity is a comedy. Christianity, to reach crucifixion as a tragedy is an obscenity. Tragedy is for ancient Greeks. For…

…for a tragedy to take place. A certain dignity, minimal, must be maintained. You need a tragic dignity. In other words, no, my God, Kierkegaard is one of my absolute fans, and I buy him in all the details, but crazy as I am, I nonetheless claim that,…

…appear. That his critique of Hegel is one big misunderstanding. But that's another story. So again, I have absolutely no problem with Kierkegaard at this level. Yes? No, when I said slowing down, I definitely didn't mean any position of wisdom in the sense…

…you know, you keep yourself out to get an objective picture and so on. I think that the lesson that I get from Kierkegaard, from Marx, from all of them is that the universality and partiality are not mutually exclusive. The paradox for me is that…

…is harassed and so on. politically correct dream scene nobody is harassed and so on and I think here again you have Kierkegaard was right when he wrote that that for Christianity the neighbor that you should love is a dead neighbor the good neighbor…

…for Christianity the neighbor that you should love is a dead neighbor the good neighbor is the dead neighbor read works of love by Kierkegaard literally he has this formula oh okay Peter But now comes the bad news, yes. Yes. I will try to answer in a…

…unable to take the properly Christian path of ethical paradoxes, of the so-called teleological suspension of the ethical, outlined by Kierkegaard in the chapter of his Either-Or, in the volume 1, called The Ancient Tradition. to God deployed his fantasy of…

…sorrow. And Kierkegaard's point is that this situation is no longer properly tragic in a similar way that Abraham also for Kierkegaard is not a tragic figure. Now I'm tempted to go here a step further. Insofar as Kierkegaard's Antigone is a paradigmatically…

…contrast to the modern one, modern Antigone, the postmodern one should find herself in a position in which, to quote Kierkegaard himself, The ethical dimension, the ethical itself would be the temptation. One version would undoubtedly be for Antigone to…

…of our ethical experience, we should go through this zero level, where it experiences the gap between the absolute dimension, Kierkegaard called this theological, and ethical at its purest, where we experience how, as Kierkegaard put it, ethical itself is a…

…the gap between the absolute dimension, Kierkegaard called this theological, and ethical at its purest, where we experience how, as Kierkegaard put it, ethical itself is a temptation to be resistant. Now let me conclude just with two points. is that…