The Prototypes

Chapter 5 focuses on another important word from Kierkegaard's mimetic vocabulary, Forbillede. Engaging the notions of figura and exemplum, the first part of this chapter argues for the plurality of prototypes of existence in Kierkegaard, effectively challenging the customary approach to Christ...

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Published inKierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity Vol. 1; pp. 133 - 164
Main Author Kaftanski, Wojciech
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Routledge 2022
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
Subjects
Van Kooten
Kierkegaard's Engagement
Young Man
Mimetic Desire
Armed Neutrality
Mimetic Models
Kierkegaard's Production
Kierkegaard's Thought
JP1
Upbuilding Discourses
Socratic Task
Vice Versa
Ideal Picture
Essentially Christian
Johannes De Silentio
Kierkegaard's Authorship
Christian Existence
Religious Existence
SLV
Genuine Christian
Danish Lutheran Church
De Silentio
Journal Entry
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Summary:Chapter 5 focuses on another important word from Kierkegaard's mimetic vocabulary, Forbillede. Engaging the notions of figura and exemplum, the first part of this chapter argues for the plurality of prototypes of existence in Kierkegaard, effectively challenging the customary approach to Christ as being the sole model of authentic life. The second part provides an exposition of mimetic models external to an individual self that I identify in Kierkegaard's account of the figures of Socrates, Abraham, Job, and "the woman who was a sinner" from the Gospel of Luke. The last part of the chapter presents Kierkegaard's internal mimetic models that I identify in his philosophical concepts of the ideal self and the ideal Christian embedded in his notion of "an image of the ideal Christian." This chapter ends with an attempt to reconstruct from Kierkegaard's works a negative prototype identified in the person of Kierkegaard.
ISBN:9780367696658
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0367696657
DOI:10.4324/9781003142768-6