Recurrence: a fundamental problem in Kierkergaard’s thought

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to present the concept of recurrence under three different aspects: First, its place in the context of individual existence; second, its character of demand for searching freedom; and, finally, recurrence as an event of existence. The article reveals the path taken from the importance of the reader in his profound loneliness - reader of life, of proof, of circumstance, of the inescapable - to the revelation of existence covered in a mimetic act. This path is evidenced because the human concern is highlighted not only by the existence, but also by the sense that life gets in front of the possibility of evil from the particular, from the individual. So, after a follow up of the concept of recurrence, an existential and therefore philosophical interest is evident: turning the look to the individual.