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Between Irony and Witness - Kierkegaard's Poetics of Faith, Hope, and Love (Hardcover) Loot Price: R5,224
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Between Irony and Witness - Kierkegaard's Poetics of Faith, Hope, and Love (Hardcover): Joel D. S Rasmussen

Between Irony and Witness - Kierkegaard's Poetics of Faith, Hope, and Love (Hardcover)

Joel D. S Rasmussen

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Rasmussen offers a novel interpretation of the relationship between religious concern and artistic creativity in the works of the self-styled "Christian poet and thinker" Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). Although Kierkegaard articulated neither a "Christology" in the sense that the term has for systematic theology, nor a generic "theory of poetry" in the sense that phrase has for literary criticism, this study makes the case that Kierkegaard's writings nevertheless do advance a "Christomorphic poetics," a tertium quid that resists conventional distinctions between theology and literature. The term "Christomorphic" signals that Kierkegaard's Christian view of the incarnation of God in Christ shapes his poetics in a fundamental way and that, therefore, Kierkegaard's authorship and his incarnational view of God in Christ should be understood together. Arguing that Kierkegaard's poetics takes shape in conversation with many of the major themes of early German Romanticism (irony, imaginative creativity, paradox, the relativization of imitation [mimesis], and erotic love), this book offers a fresh appreciation of the depth of Kierkegaard's engagement with Romanticism, and of the contours of his alternative to that literary movement. Chapter one analyzes Kierkegaard's reception of romantic irony, and demonstrates that the romantic tendency to fantasize subjective existence (at least on Kierkegaard's reading) motivates the critique of romantic poetry in Kierkegaard's early works. Chapters two and three identify and explicate Kierkegaard's alternative to romantic poetics, elucidating his distinctive Christomorphic poetics in terms of his view of God as divine poet. The fourth chapter demonstrates the way Kierkegaard's emphasis on the "imitation of Christ" challenges the romantic relativization of "mimesis," and signals a reversal of the romantic celebration of the ironic imagination. Finally, chapter five constructs a typology of Kierkegaard's three senses of the term "poet." By showing how these different senses of the one term function within Kierkegaard's larger poetics, this chapter makes clear the manner in which Kierkegaard as a "religious poet" distinguishes himself from the "secular poet" of romantic irony by fostering what he considers authentic Christian "witness" in the world according to the "Word" of the divine poet embodied in Christ.

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Imprint: T. & T. Clark
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2005
First published: September 2005
Authors: Joel D. S Rasmussen
Dimensions: 237 x 163 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-0-567-02841-9
Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General
LSN: 0-567-02841-0
Barcode: 9780567028419

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