Existing Thinker as Hermenutic Thinker. Søren Kierkegaard’s Critique of the Objective Thought in the Perspective of OdoMarquard’s Hermeneutics

Abstract

In my article I attempt to introduce a trailblazing juxtaposition of two philosophers whose ideas interweave in most inspiring way. I see Kierkegaard’s revolutionary approach to communicating and defining truth as the beginning of the modern philosophy of language and meaning. It leads to an evolution of understanding the time of human life, the anthropology of human knowledge, and to the final repudiation of the objective truth that we are witnessing in modernity. Marquard, whose thought is deeply rooted in Kierkegaard’s oeuvre, gives us a great synthesis of modern thought. Kierkegaard’s and Marquard’s shared concern for the human condition and aligned aloofness for the arrogance of pure reason enable the reader to see them as different soldiers fighting the same battle. Therefore Marquard’s ideas serve as an inspiring filter to interpret Kierkegaard once again as a genius of anticipation and a source of timeless insight into modernity.