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Kierkegaard's metaphors
- Title
- Kierkegaard's metaphors / by Jamie Lorentzen.
- Author
- Lorentzen, Jamie.
- Publication
- Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | B4378.M48 L67 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxi, 201 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p, [173]-178) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. A Truer Impression: Kierkegaard's Metaphors -- 1. Deceiving into the Truth: Metaphor and Indirect Communication (the Maieutic). A. Kierkegaard's Early Thoughts on Metaphor. B. The Pseudonyms: Metaphoric Thought-Experiments, Godly Satires, and Structuring a Maieutic Authorship in a World of Direct Communication. C. "The Fork" D. Language's Inadequacies, Existentialist Writing, and Becoming a Human through a Persona. E. Language Decay, Ambiguities, Opposition, and the Need for Passionate Tension -- 2. Concealing Collisions of the Self: The Esthetic Poetization of Metaphor. A. Reasons for Esthetic Hiddenness. B. Sources of Esthetic Hiddenness: the Romantic Tradition. C. Becoming Entangled in Metaphor and Acting Fatally -- 3. Disclosing Collisions of the Self: The Ethical Analysis of Metaphor. A. From Concealment to Disclosure. B. Practicing What You Preach: Ethical Actuality's Terrifying, Matter-of-Fact Task. C. "You Are the One" --
- 4. Enacting Collisions of the Self: The Religious Literalization of Metaphor. A. Kierkegaard's "Concept" of Metaphor. Interlude: The Coming into Existence of Metaphor. B. Rejecting or Annulling Metaphor to Embrace It Existentially. C. Enacting and Literalizing Metaphor through Imitation, Suffering, and Atonement. D. The Woman Who Was a Sinner. E. Epilogue: Metaphor and Dying to the World.
- ISBN
- 0865547319 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001030526
- OCLC
- ocm46473770
- SCSB-4202983
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries