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Divine Suspense - On Kierkegaard's 'Frygt og Baeven' and the Aesthetics of Suspense (Hardcover)
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Divine Suspense - On Kierkegaard's 'Frygt og Baeven' and the Aesthetics of Suspense (Hardcover)
Series: Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series
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What is suspense, and why do we feel it? These questions are at the
heart of the first part of this study. It develops and defends the
'imminence theory of suspense' - the view that suspense arises in
situations that are structurally defined by something essential
being imminent. Next, the study utilizes this theory as an
interpretative key to Soren Kierkegaard's seminal work 'Frygt og
Baeven' ('FB'). FB is an exploration of what it means to take the
story of Abraham and Isaac as a paradigmatic example of faith. The
study argues that a core aspect of how Kierkegaard conceptualizes
faith through the figure of Abraham is suspense. The argument is
built upon the observation that to have faith is to be a hero. To
be hero means to belong to a story. Stories manifests different
conceptualizations of time. Abraham's story, as FB frames it, is
radically geared towards something imminent - it is characterized
by an essential relation of suspense. The study then explores how
suspense not only forms part of the conceptualization of faith, but
is also part of how this conceptualization is communicated. Thus,
the study argues that there exists a symmetry of suspense between
the rhetorical and the conceptual levels of the text.
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