Kierkegaard, el poeta y su otro

In several of his works, Søren Kierkegaard employs the figure of “the poet” as an embodiment of a specific view of existence. In addition, he describes himself as a kind of poet, even in works intended to convey the “truth” of Christianity. Our aim is to investigate the role this figure plays in the genesis of Kierkegaard’s reflection about the passional element of religious experience, as much as in his critique of the philosophical-speculative approach to religion. With this purpose in mind, we
examine the relation the author establishes between the poetic and the dialectical dimension in his own philosophical project.