Kierkegaard Aesthetics and Selfhood

In the digital world Kierkegaard's thought is valuable in thinking about aesthetics as a component of human development both including but moving beyond the religious context as its primary center of meaning. Seeing human formation as interrelated with aesthetics makes art a vital dimension of human existence. Contributing to the debate about Kierkegaard's conception of the aesthetic Kierkegaard Aesthetics and Selfhood argues that Kierkegaard's primary concern is to provocatively explore how a self becomes Christian with aesthetics being a vital dimension for such self-formation. At a broader level Peder Jothen also focuses on the role authority and meaning of aesthetic expression within religious thought generally and Christianity in particular.