ABSTRACT
Anna Giannatiempo Quinzio's study on Kierkegaard's aesthetics was published in 1992 by Liguori press, in the book series Teorie e oggetti della filosofia. The overall aim of this study is to analyze and at the same time re-evaluate the aesthetic life-view. The aesthetic is the human experience in its finitude and immediacy; it is one of two dialectical poles that constitute the self. The existential truth finds poetry as a limit and as a possibility for expressing this truth: the poet sees the ideal but cannot put it into practice. Because of this impossibility the poet is in despair. The secondary literature tends to downplay the importance of the aesthetic production, judging it a mere deception, or merely analyzing it in comparison with a higher, ethical point of view. Giannatiempo Quinzio's study sheds new light upon the figure of the aesthete in all its complexity and diversity.
