ABSTRACT
Points of View: Readings of Kierkegaard was published in the series Kierkegaard and Postmodernism, edited by Mark C. Mackey rethinks Kierkegaard from A to Z."4 It is in this decade, Taylor suggests, that Mackey developed an interest in and affinity for deconstruction. The unity Mackey provides, however, is in the recognition of the disunity inherent in the authorship—the differences between the pseudonyms, and between the pseudonyms and Kierkegaard, and finally, within Kierkegaard. The prevents Kierkegaard from engaging straightforwardly in anything we might call "philosophy" or "theology," both of which presuppose the possibility of making direct reference to transcendent truths in words, and of the power of language to communicate such truths directly to others. Despite the inability of language to communicate in the ways traditionally supposed possible by philosophy and theology, Kierkegaard writes, and writes "with a portentousness that can only be called apocalyptic.".
