O labirinto existencial-religioso: a dialética entre forma e conteúdo no estilo da obra Kierkegaardiana

Abstract

The dialectic between form and content runs through the Kierkegaardian work from its critique of existential philosophical systems and christendom, to the task that it assumes to arouse subjectivity in its reader before an absolute religious criterion. Therefore, what is said is closely reflected in how it is said, and how it is said is strictly modulated by what is meant. In this context, I argue that indirect communication is not only a formal stylistic resource for approaching an ineffable existential-religious content but, on the other hand, a requirement of this very content on the formality of the work. By means of this demand, I expose the tension and its implication to the questioning of Kierkegaard's author-ity amidst the stylistic resources demanded, such as irony and pseudonymy, while I try to exert this tension in the text itself. Thus, rather than indicating that such a dialectic requires a reconsideration of the philosophical practice itself, as for the study of the kierkegaardian authorship, I also indicate that the kierkegaardian labyrinthine style does not admit any kind of cartography without, for that, murder ing its subjective content.