Kierke gaard, Literature, and the Arts Engraving, ca. 1837, by Carl Strahlheim showing the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, with what was then the Schauspielhaus, or Theater (center)— now the concert house of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin— flanked by the German Cathedral (left) and the French Cathedral (right). Pictured in the background to the immediate right of the theater is the building, still standing today, in which Kierkegaard lodged during his four stays in Berlin, in 1841– 42, 1843, 1845, and 1846. It was there, as noted by a plaque outside, that Kierkegaard wrote the first drafts of Either/Or, Repetition, and Fear and Trembling. Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts Edited by Eric Ziolkowski northwestern university press evanston, illinois Northwestern University Press www.nupress.northwestern.edu Copyright © 2018 by Northwestern University Press. Published 2018. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Ziolkowski, Eric Jozef, 1958– editor. Title: Kierkegaard, literature, and the arts / edited by Eric Ziolkowski. Description: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018. | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017029795 | ISBN 9780810135970 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780810135963 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780810135987 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813–1855. | Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813– 1855—Aesthetics. | Literature—Philosophy. | Music and philosophy. | Art and philosophy. | Performing arts—Philosophy. Classification: LCC B4377 .K4558 2018 | DDC 198.9—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017029795 Except where otherwise noted, this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. In all cases attribution should include the following information: Ziolkowski, Eric. Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018. The following material is excluded from the license: Illustrations and any previously published versions of chapters For permissions beyond the scope of this license, visit http://www.nupress .northwestern.edu/. An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 3 Eric Ziolkowski Part I. Literature The Bonfire of the Genres: Kierkegaard’s Literary Kaleidoscope 39 George Pattison Kierkegaard’s Disruptions of Literature and Philosophy: Freedom, Anxiety, and Existential Contributions 55 Edward F. Mooney Kierkegaard’s Existential Play: Storytelling and the Development of the Religious Imagination in the Authorship 71 Marcia C. Robinson Kierkegaard’s Christian Bildungsroman 85 Joakim Garff Part II. Performing Arts Beyond the Mask: Kierkegaard’s Postscript as Antitheatrical, Anti- Hegelian Drama 99 Howard Pickett A Theater of Ideas: Performance and Performativity in Kierkegaard’s Repetition 115 Martijn Boven Kierkegaard’s Notions of Drama and Opera: Molière’s Don Juan, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and the Question of Music and Sensuousness 131 Nils Holger Petersen “Let No One Invite Me, for I Do Not Dance”: Kierkegaard’s Attitudes toward Dance 149 Anne Margrete Fiskvik Part III. Visual Arts and Film Painting with Words: Kierkegaard and the Aesthetics of the Icon 177 Christopher B. Barnett Kierkegaard’s Approach to Pictorial Art, and to Specimens of Contemporary Visual Culture 193 Ragni Linnet Kierkegaard’s Concept of Inherited Sin: A Cinematic Illustration 223 Ronald M. Green Part IV. Comparisons The Moravian Origins of Kierkegaard’s and Blake’s Socratic Literature 239 James Rovira Don Giovanni and Moses and Aaron: The Possibility of a Kierkegaardian Affirmation of Music 261 Peder Jothen Kierkegaard, Dylan, and Masked and Anonymous Neighbor- Love 281 Jamie A. Lorentzen Contributors 301 Index 303 Illustrations Carl Strahlheim, Ansicht des Gensd’armen- Marktes mit dem Schauspielhaus, 1837 frontispiece Figure 1. Tightrope dancing with balancing prop from Trondheim, 1751 161 Figure 2. Ferdinand Piloty, Romeo and Juliet’s Farewell Kiss, 1875 202 Figure 3. A. C. T. Neubourg, Portrait of Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1844 205 Figures 4 and 5. Theseus and Ariadne, 1760 208 Figure 6. J. Th. Lundbye, Søbyvang, 1841 209 Figure 7. Copy of Raphael, The Entombment, 1507 212 Figure 8. Napoleon Haunting His Grave, ca. 1820 215 Figure 9. Raphael, The Sistine Madonna, 1513– 14 216 Figure 10. Owlglass, 1515 218 vii Acknowledgments A number of people deserve my heartfelt thanks for having helped to make possible this volume, which draws together essays by fourteen authors from five different countries. Andrew Burgess and Sylvia Walsh, former co-chairs of the Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group of the American Academy of Religion, encouraged this project from the outset, and they facilitated my initial contact with several authors from whom I solicited revised versions of papers originally presented on panels sponsored by that AAR Group. At every stage of its consideration, review, and production at Northwestern University Press, the volume has benefited from the expertise, meticulousness, and generosity of the individuals involved there: Henry Lowell Carrigan Jr., Maggie Grossman, Liz Hamilton, Marianne Jankowski, Nathan MacBrien, Gianna Francesca Mosser, and J. D. Wilson. The published volume is also stronger as a result of the helpful comments and suggestions made by the anonymous reviewers of its manuscript. Malene Anthon and Ingrid Langhoff of the Ordrupgaard Collection in Copenhagen are to be thanked for granting the permission for, and provid- ing the digitized reproduction of, Johan Thomas Lundbye’s 1841 landscape Søbyvang, which Marianne Jankowski has incorporated so handsomely into this volume’s cover layout. Here at my own institution, Lafayette College, I remain always thank- ful for the dedication and efficiency of both Laura McKee, secretary of the Department of Religious Studies, and the entire staff of the David Bishop Skillman Library. To Lee Upton, my gratitude is in perpetual and ceaseless competition with my boundless admiration for her. ix Abbreviations A Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art. 2 vols. Trans. T. M. Knox. Oxford: Clarendon, 1975. ASKB Auktionsprotokol over Søren Kierkegaards Bogsamling (The Auc- tioneer’s Sales Record of the Library of Søren Kierkegaard). Ed. H. P. Rohde. Copenhagen: Royal Library, 1967. Citations by list- numbers: e.g., ASKB 3567 (= ASKB + volume list number 3567). BA Søren Kierkegaard, The Book on Adler. Ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. BB See SKS. CA Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety. Ed. and trans. Reidar Thomte in collaboration with Albert B. Anderson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980. CD, CCLA Søren Kierkegaard, Christian Discourses and The Crisis and a Cri- sis in the Life of an Actress [and “Addendum: Phister as Captain Scipio” (“PCS”)]. Ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. CDP The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Letters. Ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. Bollingen Series 71. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1961. CI Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Irony and “Notes on Schelling’s Berlin Lectures.” Ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. Cor. Søren Kierkegaard, The Corsair Affair. Ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982. CUP Søren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript. 2 vols. Ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992. CWA The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation. 2 vols. Ed. Jonathan Barnes. Bollingen 71, no. 2. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. DD See SKS. EO Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or. 2 vols. Ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987. EPW Søren Kierkegaard, Early Polemical Writings. Ed. and trans. Julia Watkin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990. Contains From the Papers of One Still Living. xi xii Abbreviations EUD Søren Kierkegaard, Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses. Ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990. FSE, JFY For Self- Examination and Judge for Yourself! Ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990. FT, R Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling and Repetition. Ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983. GWFHW Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’’s Werke. 18 vols. Ed. Philipp Mar- heineke, Johannes Karl Hartwig Schulze, Eduard Gans, et al. Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 1832– 45. ASKB 549– 65, 1384– 86. JFY See FSE. JJ See SKS. JP Søren Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers. 7 vols. Ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, assisted by Gregor Malan- tschuk. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1967– 78. KBHA Kongelige Bibiliotek,