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Existence of Poet : A study on Kierkegaard's Concept of 'Poet' and 'Poetry' 1

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2012, (14), pp.185~213
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities

Lim, Gyu-jeong 1

1군산대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

In this treatise, I tried to study Kierkegaard’s existential philosophy in terms of his insistence that he himself was a poet and his writings was poetic. At first, I looked into his life, and examined which stage it belonged to among the existential stages. In this respect, I tried to make clear his concepts of “poet” and “poetry” concretely. Kierkegaard argued, over all of his writings, he was “a poet” and his writings were “poetic.” That is to say, Kierkegaard’s concepts of “poet” and “poetry” is said to be related to all of his writings. In “Phenomenology of Possibility - An Essay on Kierkegaard's Three Stages of Existence,” I worked out a preliminary study for understanding Kierkegaard's character of "poet" and "poetry". As it’s following study, in this treatise, I studied Kierkegaard’s concepts of the aesthetic pathos and the imagination as the first study on his concepts of “poet” and “poetry.” I will work out those concepts in this study and the following study on the mood, the sympathy, the poetic imagination and the experiment. For this purpose, I will mainly examine those concepts mentioned in his writings, journals and papers, and clarify the relation between his such insistence and his life.

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