Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity - A Study of Imitation, Existence, and Affect

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Wojciech Kaftanski
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9780367696658
• ISBN: 978-0-367-69665-8
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, RELIGION / Philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy of religion