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

This book challenges the widespread view of Kierkegaard's idiosyncratic and predominantly religious position on mimesis. Taking mimesis as a crucial conceptual point of reference in reading Kierkegaard, this book offers a nuanced understanding of the relation between aesthetics and religion in his thought. Kaftanski shows how Kierkegaard's dialectical-existential reading of mimesis interlaces aesthetic and religious themes, including the familiar core concepts of imitation, repetition, and admiration as well as the newly arisen notions of affectivity, contagion, and crowd behavior. Kierkegaard's enduring relevance to the malaises of our own day is firmly established by his classic concern for the meaning of human life informed by reflective meditation on the mimeticorigins of the contemporary age. Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Kierkegaard, Continental philosophy, the history of aesthetics, and critical and religious studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Release date:	October 2021
First published:	2022
Authors:	Wojciech Kaftanski
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-69559-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General Promotions
LSN:	0-367-69559-6
Barcode:	9780367695590

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