Abstract
José Luis Cañas' work, Søren Kierkegaard: Between Immediacy and Relation, published in 2003, aims to understand, the structure of Kierkegaard's thought as a poetical-religious dialectic characterized by a tension between the categories of immediacy and relation. In particular, Cañas' use of the categories of immediacy and relation comes from the idea of levels of reality and the so-called playful-ambital (lúdico-ambital) thought of Alfonso López Quintás. Kierkegaard's categories of anxiety and despair are related and explicitly understood under Quinta's categories, such as "vertigo" and the relationship with God as "ecstasy". Finally, the relational stage can be explained as the ethical-religious and represented by the figure of Abraham, who makes an authentic and passionate movement of faith and commitment. This is an example of freedom that lifts us out of immediacy and a transfiguration that leads to a unique relationship with God, what López Quintás has called "ecstasy".
