THE WRITING OF THE LIMIT. KIERKEGAARD BEFORE KANT AND HEGEL

The objective of the paper is to do a tour of three moments of philosophical writing in which the phenomenon of limit or boundary of thought is brought to light in the discourse. In the first place, Kant, as an author of the productive notion of "Boundary [Grenze]" of reason as a condition and limit of thought; secondly, Hegel, as his maximum critic at the "assumption [Aufhebung]" of negation of Kant's boundary; and, finally, Kierkegaard, whose contribution to the discussion of his predecessors consists in the "pathos [Lidenskab]" of the limit that Kant demarcates and Hegel surpasses, since, in the case of the Danish thinker, the limit of philosophy is at the same time paradox, i. e., something that cannot be known but only recognized, something that puts reason to its limit.