THINKING THROUGH KIERKEGAARD'S ANTI-CLIMACUS: ART, IMAGINATION, AND IMITATION

What place do imagination and art have in Christian existence? This paper examines this question through the writings of Kierkegaard's pseudonym Anti-Climacus: The Sickness Unto Death and Practice in Christianity. I focus on the latter work in particular because it best illustrates the importan...

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Main Author: Gregor, Brian (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2009
In: Heythrop journal
Year: 2009, Volume: 50, Issue: 3, Pages: 448-465
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