KHÔRAL LOVE? KIERKEGAARD AND DERRIDA ON HOSPITALITY

Niels Wilde

doi:10.24310/Raphisa.2019.v3i2.4490

Authors

Niels Wilde Aarhus University Denmark https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3285-461X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Raphisa.2019.v3i2.4490

Keywords:

Place, Khôra, Hospitality, Faith, Love, Existential Philosophy, Weak Theology, Kierkegaard, Derrida, Caputo, Kearney

Abstract

This paper explores the notion of hospitality and faith in Derrida and Kierkegaard. The aim is to trace the topological core of existence in relation to an ongoing debate in contemporary continental philosophy of religion about khôra. The paper shows how khôral traces are at work in Kierkegaard’s thinking in relation to the topological proximity of love. The claim is, that Kierkegaard emphasizes, not a hostility but a vulnerability of what I coin khôral love – the vibrating space between the anonymous and the amorous, call and response. The unknown X of the khôral becomes the topos of existence – the “stepping out”, the “you are here (X)”. A “you” called forth by the commandment of love or the visitation of the stranger.

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Author Biography

Niels Wilde, Aarhus University

PhD Fellow, Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, Denmark

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