Repetição como paixão da fé: uma abordagem a partir do pensamento de Søren Kierkegaard

Abstract

This thesis aims to present the idea that repetition is a religious category associated with faith and is present, in an incipient way, in the work that names it from its title, Repetition. Authored by the Danish thinker Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855), the production addresses the possibility of repetition as a philosophical and existential category by the pseudonym Constantin Constantius. The narrative runs through his reflections and his search for repetition in his own aesthetic experiences. Due to the failure of his endeavor, he imagines a young man as the object of his analysis and who, as a result of a love frustration, also wants repetition. Later, when the young man claimed to have found it, the publication ends by stating that he lacked the irruption of the religious, without concluding about the conditions for the possibility of repetition and its specific characteristics. To elucidate such questions regarding this category, this thesis investigate primarily the philosophical thought, the existential conditions and the questions of Constantius about repetition. Then, repetition as an existential problem of the imagined youth is analyzed in the light of the interiority shown in the face of love frustration and the expectation of a religious solution. The meaning of repetition in Kierkegaard's broader thought is identified, next, by the existential dialectic present in metaphysical concepts presented by Constantius, fundamentally as movement between eternity and temporality, and freedom and reality. Finally, repetition is conceived as a religious category due to its connections with the concepts of instant, paradox and especially faith, as present in the Kierkegaardian typology of the biblical characters Job and Abraham. It is concluded, therefore, that repetition, as a religious movement and seriousness of existence in the words of Constantius, consists of passion, the ethical-existential pathos of faith.