ABSTRACT
Enzo Paci's Kierkegaard and Thomas Mann is the second of a three-volume series entitled Relazioni e significati. The order in which the different essays are placed offers a general overview of Kierkegaard's thought in relation to specific themes, according to Paci's phenomenological and relationistic approach. The arrangement of the essays follows the gradual development of Kierkegaard's thought and his critical and concrete approach to philosophy. Paci's approach to Kierkegaard's thought is primarily phenomenological. Existence is at the foundation of philosophy: concrete experiences are the starting point for the construction of philosophical categories. On the one hand, Kierkegaard gives expression to the negative, the disharmony, and he closes himself off within the pseudonymous authorship; on the other hand, he expresses his hope for a positive, harmonic life in the edifying discourses. Certainly Paci's contribution to Italian Kierkegaard scholarship has been of great importance but primarily on the level of his use of Kierkegaardian categories, read through the lens of Husserlian phenomenology.
