Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity: A Study of Imitation, Existence, and Affect

This book challenges the widespread view of Kierkegaard’s idiosyncratic and predominantly religious position on mimesis.

Taking mimesis as a crucial conceptual point of reference in reading Kierkegaard, this book offers a nuanced understanding of the relation between aesthetics and religion in his thought. Kaftanski shows how Kierkegaard's dialectical-existential reading of mimesis interlaces aesthetic and religious themes, including the familiar core concepts of imitation, repetition, and a...