ABSTRACT
Alessandro Klein's monograph Antirazionalismo di Kierkegaard was published by Mursia in 1979. The starting point of the analysis is that, insofar as human beings, people both think and exist. In line with this principle, Kierkegaard criticizes the form of thought that is only concerned with its object, as it distracts the individual from actually existing. In contrast to this approach to existence, Kierkegaard defines as subjective the thought of an individual who completely devotes himself to existence. The complexity of human existence and its relation to thought were known to Socrates. Klein reconstructs Kierkegaard's interpretation of the Greek thinker, highlighting both the common traits and differences which characterize their perspectives. In Kierkegaard's opinion, Christianity is not a doctrine, but it expresses an existence-contradiction and is an existence-communication. In the final chapter of his book, Klein claims that Kierkegaard's critique of the established Christianity of his era is substantially the same as one raised by a long tradition of Protestant mystics.
