ABSTRACT
Laura Llevadot is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, and researcher at the Laboratoire d'Etudes des Logiques Contemporaines in Paris. Her Ph.D. in Philosophy was devoted to the "second philosophy" of Soren Kierkegaard, and Kierkegaard is the author to whom Llevadot's main research and scholarly production is addressed. Llevadot reads Kierkegaard as a contemporary philosopher, writer of paradoxes, and esthete of communication. The French philosophy of difference and deconstruction determines the framework in which Llevadot interprets Kierkegaard. This philosophy assumes the death of God as new horizon of thought and tries to go beyond metaphysical thinking toward a postmetaphysical philosophy, specifically in the context of ethics. The Concept of Anxiety called a "second ethics," set up beyond finite goods and evils, and supported by a hypercritical faith that goes beyond representational knowledge, because it knows how to believe and to love the infinite, impossible and incalculable.
