Kierkegaard, mimesis, and modernity : : a study of imitation, existence, and affect / / Wojciech Kaftanski.

• Superior document: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
• VerfasserIn: Kaftanski, Wojciech,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, New York ;, Abingdon, Oxon : : Routledge,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies in nineteenth-century philosophy.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Kierkegaard"s Works -- Introduction -- Kierkegaard and Modernity -- Mimesis, the City, Existence -- Conceptual Remarks and Methodology -- Theses and Chapters -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1: Representation, Originality, Genius -- 1.1 Aesthetics, Ekphrasis, Suffering -- 1.1.1 Aesthetic Experience, Beauty, Art -- 1.1.2 Lessing, Aesthetics, Ekphrasis -- 1.1.3 Kierkegaard and Ekphrasis -- 1.2 Originality, Genius, Creativity -- 1.2.1 Mimesis, the Ancients, and the Moderns -- 1.2.2 Translatio studii, mimesis, representation -- 1.2.3 Creativity, Autonomy, Selfhood -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Repetition, Recollection, Time, Meaning -- 2.1 Movement, Imagination, Time -- 2.1.1 Repetition's Repetitions -- 2.1.2 Movement and Love -- 2.1.3 Existence, Imagination, Time -- 2.2 Time, Life-View, Metamorphosis -- 2.2.1 Two Ages, Life-View, the Ethical -- 2.2.2 The Crisis, Performance, the Aesthetic -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Selfhood, Text, Redoubling -- 3.1 Selfhood, Autobiography, Fiction -- 3.1.1 Autobiography and Confession -- 3.1.2 Self-Formation and Negotiation -- 3.1.3 Selfhood and Fiction -- 3.2 Figuration, Redoubling, Reduplication -- 3.2.1 Aristotle, Ricoeur, Figuration -- 3.2.2 Figurations of Existence -- 3.2.3 Redoubling, Reduplication, Refiguration -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Imitation -- 4.1 Imitatio Christi -- 4.2 Eftergjøre and Efterligne -- 4.2.1 Eftergjøre -- 4.2.2 Efterligne, Lighed and Ligne -- 4.3 Efterabelse and Efterfølgelse -- 4.3.1 Plato and the Socratic -- 4.3.2 Kant's Nachfolge -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: The Prototypes -- 5.1 Plurality of Mimetic Models -- 5.1.1 Figura and Exemplum -- 5.1.2 Religious Prototypes -- 5.2 External Models -- 5.2.1 Socrates and Abraham.

5.2.2 Job, Girard, and Kierkegaard -- 5.2.3 "The Woman Who Was a Sinner" -- 5.3 Internal Mimetic Models -- 5.3.1 From Ideal Self to the Ideal Picture of Being a Christian -- 5.3.2 "The ideal picture of being a Christian" and Mellembestemmelserne -- 5.3.3 Kierkegaard as a Negative Prototype -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Affect, Admiration, Crowd -- 6.1 Affect, Sympathy, Empathy -- 6.1.1 Affects and Emotions -- 6.1.2 Sympathy and Empathy -- 6.2 Kierkegaard, Sympathy, Admiration -- 6.2.1 Admiration and Exemplarity in Moral Education -- 6.2.2 Sympathy -- 6.2.3 Admiration -- 6.2.3.1 Admiration and Envy -- 6.2.3.2 Admiration, Motivation, Mediocrity -- 6.2.3.3 Admiration, Sociability, Contagion -- 6.3 Crowd, Contagion, Violence -- 6.3.1 Crowd and the Public -- 6.3.2 Violence and Contagion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Comparison, Existential Mimesis, Authenticity -- 7.1 Difference and Comparison -- 7.1.1 Difference -- 7.1.2 Comparison -- 7.2 Existential Mimesis -- 7.2.1 Nonimitative, Non-Comparing, and Refigurative Mimesis -- 7.2.2 Toward an Indirect Prototype -- 7.2.3 Indirect and Intention-Driven Mimesis -- 7.3 Authenticity -- 7.3.1 Habit -- 7.3.2 Primitivity -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.