The Literary Kierkegaard. By Eric Ziolkowski
On the first page of Eric Ziolkowski’s remarkable and rich book, the reader is particularly struck by a quotation from Kierkegaard himself: ‘I have managed to get my whole “prolix literature” situated in literature until its time comes.’ If Kierkegaard is best known as a philosopher and theologian,...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Literature and theology
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 122-123 |
| Review of: | The Literary Kierkegaard (Chicago : Northwestern University Press, 2011) (Jasper, David)
The literary Kierkegaard (Evanston, Ill : Northwestern University Press, 2011) (Jasper, David) |
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| Summary: | On the first page of Eric Ziolkowski’s remarkable and rich book, the reader is particularly struck by a quotation from Kierkegaard himself: ‘I have managed to get my whole “prolix literature” situated in literature until its time comes.’ If Kierkegaard is best known as a philosopher and theologian, he cannot speak as such without the complex, riddling and elusive voices of his texts, found situated within the devices of literature that both and at once express his thoughts and hold them back, withdrawn inside worlds that await exploration, maintaining their secrets even as they yield them up, like all great works of literature. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frs068 |