Away from the Poet!

Abstract

Contrary to what some readers believe, the author claims that The Point of View is a text as important and authoritative as every other work of Kierkegaard, and that it is of special interest to analyze the interpretative key that is there offered for the pseudonimous texts towards the Discourses of 1843. Here it is analyzed the sensuous, the aesthetic and the poetic as a possible mode of existence rejected by Christianity to then conclude in the Kierkegaardian claim that poetic life or aesthetic life is not only a life of despair, but an impossible one. The sensuous-erotic genius, represented by Don Juan, apears as a figure that can only be expressed in music, as Mozart did, and that this can not really exist. Here there are analyzed the greek positions on the sensuous against happyness both in Aristotle, with the érgon argument, and Plato, reading the Protagoras with is hierarchical vision of the powers and activities of the human being, in order to culminate with Kierkegaard's argument: aesthetic life is imposible because it is the effort to consciously live an unconscious life, it is to force the mind to be mindless.