Das Problem des religiösen Akosmismus in der Kierkegaard-Rezeption von Karl Jaspers

Czakó, István (2014) Das Problem des religiösen Akosmismus in der Kierkegaard-Rezeption von Karl Jaspers. Kierkegaard Studies. Yearbook. pp. 285-300. ISSN 1430-5372

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Abstract

Karl Jaspers’ reception of Kierkegaard was characterized by some commentators as a kind of uncritical appropriation. In my paper I wish to argue that this criticism on Jaspers is not entirely adequate since his relationship to the Danish thinker is by far not an uncritical one. It seems to me that the punctum saliens of his criticism in this context is the religious motivated negation of the world (religiöse Weltverneinung), which is certainly preponderant in the late thought of Kierkegaard. In order to explain this issue firstly Jaspers’ existential concept of the world as well as that of the world negation will be dealt with. Thereafter, in the main part of the article I try to reconstruct from a historical point of view the shaping and the development of Jaspers’ increasingly sharp criticism on Kierkegaard’s acosmic view of Christianity just as his late distanciation from the Danish thinker. In the closing remarks I point out that although this criticism is by far not unfounded, nevertheless it is one-sided and reductive since it is based mainly on the late polemical writings of Kierkegaard from the period of his Kirchenkampf and it disregards some important aspects of his early thought.

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