Kierkegaard, Aesthetics, and Selfhood - The Art of Subjectivity

In the digital world, Kierkegaard's thought is valuable in thinking about aesthetics as a component of human development, both including but moving beyond the religious context as its primary center of meaning. Contributing to the debate about Kierkegaard's conception of the aesthetic, this book argues that Kierkegaard's concern is provocatively to explore how a self becomes Christian, with aesthetics a dimension of such self-formation. At a broader level, Jothen also focuses on the role, authority and meaning of art within religious thought generally and Christianity in particular.

List of contents

Introduction 1 Kierkegaard’s Ambiguous Aesthetics 2 Becoming Christian 3 Christ and the Art of Subjective Becoming 4 Mimesis, Aesthetics, and Christian Becoming 5 Becoming amidst the Existence Stages 6 Becoming and Art Postscript

About the author

Peder Jothen is Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Peder Jothen, Jothen Peder
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2018
• EAN: 9781138546110
• ISBN: 978-1-138-54611-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Religion: general, Christianity, Philosophy of religion, Relating to religious groups, Religious subjects depicted in art, Religious and ceremonial art