If the Enlightenment turned to reason to reoccupy the place left
vacant by the death of God, the history of the last two centuries
has undermined the confidence that reason will bind freedom and
keep it responsible. We cannot escape this history, which has
issued in a pervasive nihilism and has rendered all appeals to the
ethical questionable. Nor could Kierkegaard. The specter of
nihilism haunts all of his writings, as it haunts already German
romanticism, to which he is so indebted. To exorcize it is his most
fundamental concern. And it is the same fundamentally religious
concern that makes Kierkegaard so relevant to our situation: What
today is to make life meaningful? If not reason, does the turn to
the aesthetic promise an answer? To really choose is to bind
freedom. Either-Or calls us to make such a choice, i.e. to be
authentic. But what does it mean to be authentic? How are we today
to think of such an authentic choice? As autonomous action? As a
blind leap? As a leap of faith? Either/Or circles around these
questions.
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