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- Title
Kierkegaard and the Sublime.
- Authors
PATTISON, GEORGE
- Abstract
Acknowledging that 'the sublime' is not a key term in Kierkegaard's own vocabulary, the paper argues that, nonetheless, it can play an important heuristic role in understanding Kierkegaard's conceptualization of the boundary between the aesthetic and the religious. Attention is drawn to the important analogies between Kierkegaardian anxiety and Kantian and Hegelian sublimity. This serves to introduce the concept of the * anxious sublime', the manifestations of which are tracked through issues of temporality, modernity and melancholy. A critical discussion of S. Agancinski's essay 'We are not Sublime' serves to vindicate the value of 'the sublime' in making sense of that element in representation that eludes knowledge.
- Publication
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 1998, Vol 1998, Issue 1, p245
- ISSN
1430-5372
- Publication type
Article