ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the paradoxical logic in two radically different thought worlds: those of Nicholas of Cusa and of Søren Kierkegaard. Cusa and Kierkegaard are selected for two reasons. First, in different ways, they articulate the logic of what it is to think the infinite in terms of unavoidable paradox. The second reason is to explore in a specific way the possibility of communication between the discourses of mystical theology and existentialism. Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments proposes a thought experiment. The thought experiment in Fragments offers an alternative to this model, one which hardly bothers to disguise its Christian character. The key for this alternative model, then, is that a historical point of departure is decisive for an eternal happiness. David Williams explains the importance of monstrosity for medieval language about the ineffable, in a tradition derived from Pseudo-Dionysius.
