Kierkegaard on Art and Communication

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Kierkegaard: Poet of the Religious....Pages 1-22
Aesthetics and Religion: Kierkegaard and the Offence of Indirect Communication....Pages 23-54
On Being Sidetracked by the Aesthetic: Kierkegaard’s Practical Paradox....Pages 55-63
Kierkegaard, the Aesthetic and Mozart’s Don Giovanni....Pages 64-77
The Role of Folk and Fairy Tales in Kierkegaard’s Authorship....Pages 78-87
‘Keeping Silent through Speaking’....Pages 88-99
Abraham’s Silence Aesthetically Considered....Pages 100-113
Indirect Communication: Hegelian Aesthetic and Kierkegaard’s Literary Art....Pages 114-124
The Apostle, the Genius and the Monkey: Reflections on Kierkegaard’s ‘The Mirror of the Word’....Pages 125-136
Fighting for Narnia: Søren Kierkegaard and C. S. Lewis....Pages 137-149
Reflections on the ‘Other’ in Dinesen, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche....Pages 150-159
Confidence as a Work of Love....Pages 160-184
Back Matter....Pages 185-189