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- Title
Poetics and the "Being" of Love.
- Authors
GONZÁLEZ, DARÍO
- Abstract
The distinction between Christian and erotic love involves, in Kierkegaard, the differentiation of two ways of speaking. That is why he criticizes, in Works of Love, the role of poetic language in the context of an ethico-religious communication. The discourse about Christian love, however, is not completely foreign to poetry in as much as "all language about the spiritual" is "essentially metaphorical." The specificity of a Christian discourse about love consists in presupposing the dimension of the pure "being" of love, the eternity of love as character of God's love, a dimension that the poetic word fails to describe.
- Publication
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 1998, Vol 1998, Issue 1, p129
- ISSN
1430-5372
- Publication type
Article