CONSTANTIN CONSTANTIUS’ LITTLE CONTRIBUTION TO AN ONTOLOGY OF BECOMING
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Repetition; Ontology of Becoming; Heiberg;Abstract
The article analyzes Kierkegaard's unpublished work "A Little Contribution" by Constantin Constatius, Author of Repetition" as a response to J.L. Heiberg's review of Repetition in his volume Urania. Yearbook for 1844. Kierkegaard's unpublished work openly explains the philosophical meaning of the concept of repetition in opposition to the misunderstood way of living it by the young protagonist of Repetition. But while Repetition only remains a kind of metaphorical novel, the Little Contribution is a theoretical text, that is why in the end the Philosopher decided to not publish it, since Repetition was written "in such a way that heretics are unable to understand it”. Moreover, the text is interesting and useful because it is also a contribution in order to understand the ontology of becoming of Climacus' Fragments of the same year.
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