ABSTRACT
The book Repetition in Søren A. Kierkegaard: Or How to Recover the Impossible by Catalina Elena Dobre explores with depth and detail the category of repetition in the well-known work by Kierkegaard, Repetition. The chapter on Kierkegaard takes readers to the center of the dramatis personae in the Kierkegaardian oeuvre in order to situate the category of repetition. Then, it invites readers to understand the meaning of the word "repetition" as Kierkegaard readerses it. Catalina Elena Dobre then takes readers into the mode in which Repetition is written, by which Kierkegaard indirectly communicates to readers the scope of the repetition. Her conclusion is that repetition is not itself redemption but its possibility. In the act itself we are again able to believe in the past, in which we might have lost youth, virtue, or innocence: that is, we are able to recover our own innocence by choosing ourselves and not being circumscribed by the situations of the world.
