Kierkegaard by Sartre: the trans-historical

Abstract

This research aims to highlight the influence that Kierkegaard had on Sartre's existentialism through an analysis of what trans-historical is. To this end, we examined the text The Singular Universal, which is an article by Sartre that is not widely disseminated, despite having been presented in the famous colloquium - Kierkegaard Vivo. It is worth highlighting that the concept that will be addressed here is located on the same theoretical horizon as one of the themes most sensitive to the existentialist philosopher's theses, namely, History. Furthermore, in the aforementioned writing, it is evident that Sartre, when recording the Dane's philosophy, discusses the notion of understanding to criticize the interpretation that reduces the ontophenomenological character of the freedom inherent to the human condition, which as a category of singular universal, is found in a perspective rooted in trans-historical, defined as that which can be in History, but which cannot be determined by the objectification of knowledge.