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- Antony Aumann, On the Trouble with Paraphrasing Kierkegaard.In an important passage in *Philosophies of Art*, Peter Kivy rejects what he calls the ‘no-paraphrase’ thesis. According to this thesis, the content of some literary works of art can only be stated in the precise words of these works themselves. Any attempt to restate their content in any other words will fail. This paper provides a challenge to Kivy’s position. It does so by developing some comments on the issue made by Kierkegaard. In particular, it defends Kierkegaard’s claim that some of the views expressed in *Concluding Unscientific Postscript* cannot be paraphrased on pain of contradiction.In my reading list | Discuss this article | Edit | Categorize |My bibliography
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