Abstract
The focus of the lecture is on the problem of immanence and transcendence, subjectivity and intersubjectivity in the work of Soren Kierkegaard and Emmanuel Lévinas. Detailed analysis of Kierkegaard's concepts of human spirit and soul served as the ground for further analyses of the aspects that Lévinas used in his own thinking as well as those he openly rejected - however, without sufficient openness towards Kierkegaard's thinking.
The problem of subjectivity in relation to the other as well as to the Other in the sense of the Absolute was analysed in the work od both Lévinas and Kierkegaard and both of them were then explained using Derrida's analysis of the gift. Gift is thus presented as a possible solution to the problem of breaking up the Totality and opening up towards the Other, the Absolute.