Kierkegaard y la comunicación indirecta. Algunos comentarios a La Alternativa

Abstract

The Alternative, a Kierkegaardian work of 1843 signed with a pseudonym, presents a religious intention and focuses on the interiority exalted by the subjective thought and the indirect existential communication. Indirect communication is best for moving persons from inside in order to improve their lifes; and interiority is the path of personal enrichment because of the existential integration of knowledge in the individual. Objectivity suppresses interiority so the object can be known as it is; but interiority asks how does these knowledge affect one's existence and it leads to autoknowledge. Kierkegaard distinguishes the essential knowledge, that which keeps an essential relation with the existence of the individual and corresponds to subjective thought, on the one hand, from the accidental knowledge, on the other hand, that which has no essential relation with one's existence. Not as with the accidental, essential knowledge is communicated indirectly with the intention that the receptor turns over itself and engages in subjective thought on the transmited. Indirect communication is, then, the art of communicating essential thruths, and it is thoroughly metaphorical: this is why Kierkegaard invents a series of characters who embody the existential failure or success, characters who manifest essential knowledge which the reader ought to make his own in order to live a thoroughly human existence.