Kierkegaard's Notions of Drama and Opera: Molière's Don Juan, Mozart's Don Giovanni, and the Question of Music and Sensuousness

Nils Holger Petersen

Kierkegaard's Notions of Drama and Opera: Molière's Don Juan, Mozart's Don Giovanni, and the Question of Music and Sensuousness

Section of Church History

Abstract

The essay focuses on Kierkegaard's treatise on Mozart's Don Giovanni (in the first volume of his Either/Or (1843), ascribed to the pseudonymous aestitician "A". It discusses the aesthetics of drama and opera, not least through A's understanding of (and comparison between) language and music, in a broad historical context of worldview, while also in particular as a response to early Romantic aesthetics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts
Editors	Eric Ziolkowski
Number of pages	18
Place of Publication	Evanstone, Illinois, USA
Publisher	Northwestern University Press
Publication date	2018
Pages	131-148
ISBN (Print)	9780810135970
ISBN (Electronic)	9780810135987
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Kierkegaard's Notions of Drama and Opera: Molière's Don Juan, Mozart's Don Giovanni, and the Question of Music and Sensuousness. / Petersen, Nils Holger.
Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts. ed. / Eric Ziolkowski. Evanstone, Illinois, USA: Northwestern University Press, 2018. p. 131-148.

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