Kierkegaard and the Staging of Desire: Rhetoric and Performance in a Theology of Eros

by Carl S. Hughes and Carl S Hughes

Theology in the modern era often assumes that the consummate form of theological discourse is objective prose--ignoring or condemning apophatic traditions and the spiritual eros that drives them. For too long, Kierkegaard has been read along these lines as a progenitor of twentieth-century neo-orthodoxy and a stern critic of the erotic in all its forms. In contrast, Hughes argues that Kierkegaard envisions faith fundamentally as a form of infinite,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823257258
• ISBN13: 9780823257256
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"