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Between Irony and Witness: Kierkegaard's Poetics of Faith, Hope, and Love.


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Between irony and witness; Kierkegaard's poetics po·et·ics  
n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
1. Literary criticism that deals with the nature, forms, and laws of poetry.

2. A treatise on or study of poetry or aesthetics.

3.
 of faith, hope, and love.

Rasmussen, Joel D. S.

T&T Clark

2005

198 pages

$100.00

Hardcover

BX4827

Rasmussen argues that Danish religious philosopher Soren Kierkegaard Noun 1. Soren Kierkegaard - Danish philosopher who is generally considered. along with Nietzsche, to be a founder of existentialism (1813-1855)
Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
 (1813-55) took up the Romantic gauntlet gauntlet /gaunt·let/ (gawnt´let) a bandage covering the hand and fingers like a glove.  to combine criticism and art early in his intellectual career, and thought of himself a primarily a poet throughout his life. He explores his poetics in terms of the imaginative anticipation of the eternal, God's poem, his figuration fig·u·ra·tion  
n.
1. The act of forming something into a particular shape.

2. A shape, form, or outline.

3. The act of representing with figures.

4. A figurative representation.

5.
 of Christ, the imitation of Christ, and between irony and witness. T&T Clark is an imprint of Continuum.

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