ABSTRACT
Anti-Climacus was to become Kierkegaard’s last major pseudonym.1 In the framework of Kierkegaard’s work, Anti-Climacus represents the Christian standpoint and, as such, he is a higher pseudonym as compared to the earlier esthetic pseudonyms.2 In Kierkegaard’s own account, his authorship moved “from ‘the poet,’ from the esthetic-from ‘the philosopher,’ from the speculative-to the indication of the most inward qualification of the essentially Christian.”3 It was Anti-Climacus’ role to serve such a task of addressing the problem of “the most inward qualifications” of becoming a Christian. In doing so, Anti-Climacus stands at the point, where the entirety of Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous and authorial authorship comes, as it were, to a halt.4
