In the Footsteps of Kierkegaard
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- ISBN 9783631843895
- Weight: 412g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jan 2022
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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The book is a comparative study of the works of Jzef Wittlin and Pär Lagerkvist, in their youth recognized as prominent expressionist writers, and in their later years making the ethical topic the core of their works. In search for ways of expressing ethical dilemmas, the works of Sren Kierkegaard and his concept of indirect communication turned out to be an extraordinarily powerful tool for both writers, enabling them to explore the matters of ethics and morals in a way substantially different from traditional didactic literature. In the reading of Wittlins and Lagerkvists works undertaken in this book, the perspectives of comparative studies and the history of literature complement and make it possible to describe an important, but rarely recognized phenomenon of modern European literature: its ethical variant.
Katarzyna Szewczyk-Haake professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna. Her area of academic interest comprises comparative literature, interarts studies, history of modern European literature and relations between literature and philosophy.
