Kierkegaard and the Limit of Analogy

Abstract

It is well known that Kierkegaard was fascinated by boundary disputes. Approaching a boundary is both a containment and an exposure. On the one hand, the experience of drawing near to a border offers an assurance. It promises a delineated territory, an area that can be marked off, traversed, and known. However, it also turns us toward an outside: what is not yet mapped, and perhaps, what lies beyond all possible maps. Here be monsters.