Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity
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Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity

A Study of Imitation, Existence, and Affect

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Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity

A Study of Imitation, Existence, and Affect

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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.

Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
ISBN
9781000480641
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophie
Subtopic
Moderne Philosophie

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of Kierkegaard’s Works
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Representation, Originality, Genius
  11. 2 Repetition, Recollection, Time, Meaning
  12. 3 Selfhood, Text, Redoubling
  13. 4 Imitation
  14. 5 The Prototypes
  15. 6 Affect, Admiration, Crowd
  16. 7 Comparison, Existential Mimesis, Authenticity
  17. Conclusion