This book challenges the widespread view of Kierkegaard's idiosyncratic and predominantly religious position on mimesis. In doing so, it offers a more nuanced understanding of the relation between aesthetics and religion in his thought.
This book challenges the widespread view of Kierkegaard's idiosyncratic and predominantly religious position on mimesis. In doing so, it offers a more nuanced understanding of the relation between aesthetics and religion in his thought.
Wojciech Kaftanski is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Communications Associate at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. He is a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Husserl Archives/ Centre for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy at KU Leuven, and a former House Foundation Fellow at the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College.
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Introduction 1. Representation Originality Genius 2. Repetition Recollection Time Meaning 3. Selfhood Text Redoubling 4. Imitation 5. The Prototypes 6. Affect Admiration Crowd 7. Comparison Existential Mimesis Authenticity Conclusion
