![]() Relation of his idea of aesthetics to the original formulation of that conceptĪ century earlier by A. Same time, Kierkegaard scholars have never broached the question of the In the standard introductions, histories, and anthologies of the field.5 At the Kierkegaard completely one looks almost in vain for any discussion of him Of aesthetics, and aestheticians themselves, have tended to overlook or ignore In denoting the first of his three existential stages, there is a curious lacunaīetween Kierkegaard studies and the general history of aesthetics. Though Kierkegaard's concept of the aesthetic becomes crucial for him To be 'entirely foreign to Christianity.'4 The Point of View (1859), where he proclaims 'purely aesthetic categories' His various 'aesthetic' guises and pseudonyms in his 'Report to History,' With one of the most vitriolic condemnations of Christian art ever penned.Īnd, finally, it is to overlook the Kierkegaard who steps out from behind Under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus in 1850, whose sixth section closes It is also to neglect Kierkegaard's Training in Christianity, published Hazards of becoming sensually or speculatively immersed in the aesthetic Such as the second volume of Either/Or (1843), which warns against the Ignore the numerous explicitly anti-aesthetic instalments from his writings, On the other hand, to construe Kierkegaard as a lover of aesthetics is to With the ethical stage (and the transitional phases of irony and humour) inīetween, it has been easy for scholars of his thought to forget that the BAUMGARTEN AESTHETICS PDF TO WORD SERIESThe aesthetic-literary-a development that accounts for his (evidently abandoned) sketch dated 1842 or 1843 for a series of lectures on poetics andĭownloaded from at University of Iowa Libraries/Serials Acquisitions on March 18, 2015īecause Kierkegaard sets the aesthetic and religious stages so clearly apart, Intellectually, he orbited away from his earlier theological studies,Īnd toward independent scrutiny of scientific scholarship, beginning with ![]() Whom he considered as representatives of a negative stance toward Christianity. To such quintessentially aesthetic figures as Faust, Don Juan, and Ahasuerus, ![]() Regarding the implications of that view.2 During that period he was attracted Indulged for a time in an aesthetic view of life before achieving clarity Pursuit of aesthetic interests in the mid-i83Os in reaction against his strictĮthical and religious upbringing by his father. ![]() It is generally accepted that he took up his On the one hand, Kierkegaard's initial turn toward aesthetics representedĪ turn away from Christianity. But it would be wrong to suppose that Kierkegaard ever reconciledįully his aesthetic preoccupations with his Christian faith and devotion. Non-pseudonymous published works, as well as his private journals and Throughout his career as an author-in both his pseudonymous and his It is not to be denied that aesthetics, the aesthetic, and the aesthete persistĪs central categories in Kierkegaard's philosophical-theological vocabulary The beautiful, especially as they become manifest in poetry and the fine arts? Life of religious resignation, suffering, guilt, repentance, and faith, beĮnamoured of aesthetics, a branch of philosophy focused upon beauty and How could a Christian, a trueĬhristian in Kierkegaard's fullest sense of a person radically engaged in a Mann indulged in a contradiction in terms. Kierkegaard as 'the Christian in love with aesthetics,' Thomas t, March 1992īask words do not state something that might exist outside ![]()
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