Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Schlegel: Living Poetically. A Critical Dialogue On to the Novel Lucinde

Abstract

Our focus in this paper is to make a “critical dialogue” between Friedrich Schlegel and Søren Kierkegaard, taking as a starting point the novel Lucinde. Even it was unfinished, because Schlegel planned an entire project that was not concluded, the novel Lucinde did not stay indifferent to the young Kierkegaard. Despite his harsh critique over Schlegel ?s writing it was decisive for Kierkegaard ?s interest with romanticism, by one hand, and by the other, allowed Kierkegaard to develope and interesting strategy of opposition to romanticism and creating a poetic work at the service of Christianity. Therefore the aim of this paper is to underline the influence of Schlegel on Kierkegaard, as well as to present the new direction that the Danish philosopher gives to the idea of “poetic life”.