Kierkegaard, Communication, and Virtue: Authorship as Edification

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151 index a (the pseudonym). See Either/Or I abraham, 25–27, 45–46, 92–98, 102, 116, 121, 137n30, 138n54, 145n7 absurd, 95–97, 104, 145nn13–14, 146n3 adler, adolph, 6, 11–13, 48, 84, 98, 144n13 aesthetic, 11, 65, 78, 84, 100, 102, 127, 129, 142n38, 144n12, 145n15; existence sphere, 28, 31, 34–42, 70, 72, 74, 81, 85, 89, 93, 105, 128, 142n40, 143n1; Kierkegaard as, 69–72, 81–82; and the religious, 70–72, 82–85; writings, 18, 62–66, 78, 80, 144n3 agamemnon, 25 anaxagoras, 105 annas, Julia, 148n16 anscombe, elizabeth, 117, 130–31, 150n60 anselm (Saint), 5 anti-Climacus, 110–15. See also The Sickness unto Death; Practice in Christianity anxiety, 9, 11, 97–100; of classical life, 118 aristotle, 2, 52, 54, 120–26, 135n2, 139n11, 148n16, 149n32; and cleverness, 124; and disposition, 99; and the virtue tradition, 5, 117–18, 130; Armed Neutrality, 9, 11, 76, 145n6 atheism, 146n5 audi, robert, 137n24 augustine (Saint), 5 austen, Jane, 126–30, 149n45, 149nn48–49 authorship, 2–3, 28, 39, 45, 56–57, 82–84, 97, 116, 142n38, 143n41, 145n15; and Christianity, 11, 13, 34, 53, 85, 145n6; and deconstruction, 64–65; and edification, 5, 18, 48, 61, 75–81, 134; “first,” 19; Kierkegaard’s view of, 7, 9–10, 49, 50, 61, 63–74, 79–80, 143n45, 144n3, 148n13; pseudonymous, 17; and the religious, 12, 62–63, 69, 90, 142n26 Beaty, michael, 148nn23–24, 149n38 Bentham, Jeremy, 130 Bible, 25–26, 30. See also New Testament Blunt reading, 20–22, 34, 41, 137n18 The Book on Adler, 3, 5, 9, 12–13, 34, 46–48, 83–84, 129, 131–32, 144n12 Brookes, derek r., 144n8 Brutus, 25 Calvin, John, 146n5 Camus, albert, 120 Cappelørn, niels Jørgen, 44, 61, 137n9, 137n14, 139n16, 141n2, 141n15, 142n26, 142n31, 144n10 Cavell, Stanley, 136n8 Chamberlain, Jane, 141n24 Character, 1, 19, 53, 70–71, 83, 93, 122–23, 125–26, 128, 149n37; and edification, 5–7; and hermeneutical assumptions, 70; and upbringing, 132; and virtue ethics, 120 Christendom, 8–11, 18, 29, 34, 56, 68, 76–77, 111–12, 130, 133, 146n9 Christian, becoming a, 5, 77, 85, 90, 146n20 Christian Discourses, 130, 136n19, 139n11, 148n14 Christianity, 8–11, 18, 24, 42–44, 63, 72, 77, 80, 82, 101, 104, 146n12, 147n22, 147n24; and anti-Climacus , 111–14, 116; and Johannes Climacus, 35– 36, 55, 66, 107–10; communication and, 24, 55–57, 90, 133; the concepts of, 9–11, 18, 29, 91, 119–20, 129; Kierkegaard’s relation to or view of, 7, 13, 66, 70, 73, 116–21, 135n6, 143n2; the reintroduction of, 34, 76, 84; and the virtues/virtue ethics, 5, 79, 90, 122–26, 130 Cohen, ted, 136n8 Collins, James, 148n13 Comic, 36–37, 99, 105. See also humor Communication, 10, 45–47, 61, 89, 91, 97, 136n17, 140n2; Christian, 13, 55–57, 66, 85, 133, 146n17; lectures on, 5, 18, 49–57, 69, 78, 111, 116. See also indirect communication Community, 10, 23, 122, 130, 132–33, 149n45 Conant, James, 136n8 Concept(s) (and conception, conceptual), 6, 20–21, 33–35, 41, 66, 71, 97, 145n2, 147n22; analysis and clarification of, 5, 8–13, 18, 44–46, 84, 90–91, 95, 116, 139n14; of Christianity, 10–13, 29–30, 48, 76– 77, 104, 120–23, 126, 130, 133; confusion of, 8, 31, 129; and deconstruction, 23, 29–31; dialectic, 45– 46, 51, 131; of faith, 89–117; grammar of, 10, 90–91 The Concept of Anxiety, 9, 97–100, 116, 119, 125, 145n8 The Concept of Irony, 39, 48, 144n13, 148n13 Concluding Unscientific Postscript, 10–11, 13, 18–19, 22, 28, 30–31, 35–43, 50–51, 55, 62, 65–68, 82, 94, 97–98, 100–107, 111, 119, 129, 135n4, 136n7, 139n2, 140n23, 143n45, 144n3, 144n10, 145n8, 145n2, 146n3, 147n12, 147n23, 147n25, 147n29, 148n14, 148n21; “a first and last explanation,” 22, 30, 152 | Index 65–68, 143n45; “a glance at a Contemporary effort in danish literature,” 31, 35, 65–68 Confusion, 53, 67–68; ethical, 51; of language, 18; of premise authors, 47; religious, 6, 12–13, 48, 92, 129, 132 Consequentialism, 130–31 Constancy, 106, 128–30 Contradiction, 45, 121; of existence, 39–41, 77; in Kierkegaard’s retrospection, 68, 142n26; of Poole’s reading, 20 Copan, Paul, 135n16 Copp, david, 148n16 The Corsair Affair, 141n12 Courage, 4, 6, 9, 20, 50, 52, 77, 95, 106, 128 Crisp, roger, 150n60 Critchley, Simon, 29, 138n52 davenport, John J., vii, 147n3 deception (and...