Søren Kierkegaard is well known for his claim that human life is marked by three existential spheres - the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. In Bob Dylan and the Spheres of Existence, Christopher B. Barnett argues that Kierkegaard's theory provides a key interpretative lens through which to evaluate the songwriting of Bob Dylan.
Søren Kierkegaard is well known for his claim that human life is marked by three existential spheres - the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. In Bob Dylan and the Spheres of Existence, Christopher B. Barnett argues that Kierkegaard's theory provides a key interpretative lens through which to evaluate the songwriting of Bob Dylan.
Über den Autor
Christopher B. Barnett is professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University. He is the author of dozens of books, book chapters, and articles, including the recent monographs Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology (2019) and Bob Dylan and the Spheres of Existence (2023). Man of Pain: A Novel is his fiction debut.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Bob Dylan and Religion: A Survey
2. Dylan as Poet of the Aesthetic
3. Dylan as Poet of the Ethical
4. Dylan as Poet of the Religious
Epilogue: The Poet in an Age of Technology
