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

An analysis of spiritual eros in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard. Argues that Kierkegaard uses settings of theatrical and liturgical performance as rhetorical means of eliciting ever greater desire for God. Situates Kierkegaard against the backdrop of the Lutheran tradition and older traditions of negative theology.