ON THE PRESENCE OF THE OTHER IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE KIERKEGAARDIAN SINGULAR: INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF FEAR AND TREMBLING
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The purpose of this paper is to clarify whether the subjectivity of the single individual in Kierkegaard is constituted, not only as a self-reflective and derived consciousness but, also, through the relationship with other individuals. The opening of the singular is not something obvious because Fear and Trembling (1843) shows how singularity requires canceling reason and general ethics, that is, the means by which the individual could relate himself and communicate with other individuals. Although the relationship between Abraham and Isaac plays an essential role for the relationship that Abraham maintains with God, justifying Abraham's action implies affirming the incommensurability between the interiority of the individual and the exteriority of ethics and, in fact, the description of the knight of faith in Fear and Trembling is similar to that of an isolated individual. The discourse of Works of Love (1847) allows us to nuance what was said in Fear and Trembling; in Works of Love, the Christian law is presented as a guarantee for certain ethical objectivity, linking the love to God with the love to the neighbor, what allows us to reinterpret the reduplication of Abraham as an expressly ethical task.
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