Kierkegaard, Aesthetics, and Selfhood The Art of Subjectivity [Hardcover]

In the digital world, Kierkegaard's thought is valuable in thinking about aesthetics as a component of human development, both including but moving beyond the religious context as its primary center of meaning. Seeing human formation as interrelated with aesthetics makes art a vital dimension of human existence. Contributing to the debate about Kierkegaard's conception of the aesthetic, Kierkegaard, Aesthetics, and Selfhood argues that Kierkegaard's primary concern is to provocatively explore how a self becomes Christian, with aesthetics being a vital dimension for such self-formation. At a broader level, Peder Jothen also focuses on the role, authority, and meaning of aesthetic expression within religious thought generally and Christianity in particular.

Introduction

1 Kierkegaards Ambiguous Aesthetics

2 Becoming Christian

3 Christ and the Art of Subjective Becoming

4 Mimesis, Aesthetics, and Christian Becoming

5 Becoming amidst the Existence Stages

6 Becoming and Art

Postscript

Peder Jothen is Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, USA.