Valls Boix, Juan Evaristo2020-03-042020-03-042017-06-302082-6710https://hdl.handle.net/2445/152017The aim of this article is to develop a postmetaphysical conception of reading by following Kierkegaard's Either/Or Part I (1843) through such Derridian concepts as secret, hospitality, and spectrality. The work focuses on the three essays addressed to the Symparanekromenoi ('the community of the dead'), a fellowship neither young nor old with an aphoristic way of life (2010b: 137-225) that can be understood as a figure of alterity. Special attention is paid to paratextual features of the book: the texts are actually presented as old papers found in a secretary desk by a pseudonymous editor ('Victor Eremita'), which suggests that every text is a posthumous paper, that is to say, it will always be read after the death of its author. Instead of finding a solid author who holds the semantic weight of the text, these papers are based in a blank of sense, a specter, a secret: if they are sustained on its author, then they are sustained in a mystery, not in a sort of revelation of meaning.12 p.application/pdfengcc-by-nc-nd (c) Valls Boix, Juan Evaristo, 2017http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/esAutoriaAlteritat (Filosofia)MetafísicaLecturaAuthorshipAlterity (Philosophy)MetaphysicsReadingKierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855info:eu-repo/semantics/article6939752020-03-04info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess