344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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One of the elements that many readers admire in Kierkegaard’s skill as a writer is his ability to create different voices and perspectives in his works. Instead of unilaterally presenting clear-cut doctrines and theses, he confronts the reader with a range of personalities and figures who all espouse different views. One important aspect of this play of perspectives is Kierkegaard’s controversial... Read more
Contents: Preface; ‘A’ the aesthete: aestheticism and the limits of philosophy, Ryan Kemp; A, B, and A. F…: Kierkegaard’s use of anonyms, Joseph Westfall; Anti-Climacus: Kierkegaard’s ‘servant of the word’, Jakub Marek; Constantin Constantius: the activity of a travelling esthetician and how he still happened to pay for the dinner, Gabriel Guedes Rossatti; Frater Taciturnus: the two lives of the silent brother, Wojciech Kaftanski and Gabriel Guedes Rossatti; H.H.: a guerrilla writer after theologians…and more, Paul Martens; Hilarius Bookbinder: the realm of truth and the world of books, Elisabete M. de Sousa; Inter et inter: between actress and critic, Joseph Westfall; Johannes Climacus: humorist, dialectician, and gadfly, Lee C. Barrett; Johannes de silentio: religious poet or faithless aesthete? Ryan Kemp; Johannes the Seducer: the aesthete par excellence or on the way to ethics?, Nathaniel Kramer; Judge William: the limits of the ethical, Patricia C. Dip; Nicolaus Notabene: Kierkegaard’s satirical mask, Nassim Bravo Jordán; The one still living: life-view, nihilism, and religious experience, Matthew Brake; Petrus Minor: a lowly and insignificant ministering critic, Thomas J. Millay; Quidam: earnest for ten minutes a week, Mariana Alessandri; Victor Eremita: a diplomatic yet abstruse editor, Joaquim Hernandez-Dispaux; Vigilius Haufniensis: psychological sleuth, anxious author, and inadvertent evangelist, Lee C. Barrett; William Afham: the line by which an ape may become an apostle, Mariana Alessandri; Young man: voice of naïveté, Jochen Schmidt; Indexes.
Biography
Katalin Nun and Jon Stewart are both based in the Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
