The Poet and the Dancer
The Poet and the Dancer
Søren Kierkegaard
This chapter examines Fear and Trembling to investigate why Kierkegaard describes his model of faith, Abraham, as a dancer. Kierkegaard contrasts dancing with philosophical writing to signal an unbridgeable chasm between religion and the science of it. Dance appears as a metaphor for a dialectical relationship between reason and experience whose terms are held together only in the passion of a singular individual. The discussion concludes that Kierkegaard's response to Hegel enforces a sense of opposition between writing and dancing as practices. In doing so, Kierkegaard helps elucidate the connection between adherence to an emergence narrative of the field and a difficulty acknowledging any contribution dance can make to theory and method in religious studies.
Keywords: Kierkegaard, poet, Hegel, Johannes Silentio, Abraham
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