Kierkegaard’s Silences
Kierkegaard’s Silences

Summary/Abstract: The article sketches the ubiquity of the theme of silence in Kierkegaard’s authorship, indicating its role in the aesthetic authorship and in Kierkegaard’s Zeitkritik, before turning to religious silence. The main focus here is the discourse entitled ‘Silence’, which is one of the three so-called ‘godly discourses’ that constitute The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air. The article follows an exegetical path through the discourse, emphasizing the contrast between poetic silence and the silence one learns from nature as well as the problematic character of language in the divine-human relationship. It concludes with comments on the temporality of this relationship (with reference to Heidegger) and with an indication of the relevance of the associated discourse on ‘The woman who was a Sinner’.

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