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Hill, Leslie (2020) 'The Prey or the Shadow' : Klossowski, Kierkegaard, Desire. Paragraph, 43 (1). pp. 58-70. doi:10.3366/para.2020.0320 ISSN 0264-8334.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2020.0320
Abstract
During the late 1930s, towards the beginning of a long and colourful career as a translator, writer, novelist and painter, Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001) proved an attentive reader of the work of the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55). This article examines Klossowski's twofold engagement with Kierkegaard, the first in the form of a commentary, published in Bataille's magazine Acéphale in 1937 addressing the Dane's use of Mozart's Don Giovanni in his philosophical treatise Either — Or, the second, a year later, being a translation of an essay by Kierkegaard, also originally part of Either — Or, offering an alternative interpretation of Sophocles’ Antigone to the one proposed by Hegel. The aim of the article is to examine how Klossowski, in these texts, problematizes the possibility of mediation and translatability, and emphasizes instead the irreducibility of immediacy, secrecy, indirection.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Paragraph | ||||||
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0264-8334 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 March 2020 | ||||||
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Volume: | 43 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 58-70 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.3366/para.2020.0320 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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