ABSTRACT
Poet or Witness? The Problem of the Communication of Christianity in Søren Aabye Kierkegaard is Isabella Adinolfi's first published work. The author narrows her field of investigation down to the figures of the witness and the poet. In the Introduction, Adinolfi explains that in her study the Kierkegaardian authorship will be looked at in the light of works such as the Concluding Unscientific Postscript and The Point of View for my Work as an Author. After having outlined Kierkegaard's theory of communication, Adinolfi takes a closer look at Kierkegaard's works and his way of communicating Christianity within his authorship. Adinolfi points out that at the origin of this problem of the communication of the Christian truth is Kierkegaard's complicated personality. By considering himself a poet Kierkegaard also sees himself as the corrective. Besides taking into account Kierkegaard's own interpretation of his works, Adinolfi also considers the personal and private reasons that brought him to publish his aesthetic writings.
