caa a22 4500 386387036 CHVBK 20180307112101.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0034412500019910 doi S0034412500019910 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0034412500019910 Pattison George Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk Eternal Loneliness: Art and Religion in Kierkegaard and Zen [Elektronische Daten] [George Pattison] When we compare a thinker as complex and many-sided as Søren Kierkegaard with a cultural phenomenon as significant as Zen Buddhism it is unlikely that we will be able to come up with any simple formula by which to summarize the results of the comparison. But the value of such comparative studies need not in any case lie in the conclusions we reach but in the intrinsic interest and importance of the material itself, in the questions and insights raised by both similarities and dissimilarities. All this is still true if we confine the field of comparison to a very specific area, as here, where we are concerned with the relationship between art and religion in Kierkegaard and Zen. For this is of course no marginal issue: the distinction between the aesthetic and the religious is fundamental to the whole structure of Kierkegaard's authorship while the arts provde one of the main manifestations of the spirit of Zen. Our line of enquiry may be narrow but it takes us straight to the heart of the matter and the questions which it raises are crucial to the overall assessment of both Kierkegaard and Zen and of the relationship between them. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/3(1989-09), 379-392 0034-4125 25:3<379 1989 25 RES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500019910 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500019910 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Pattison George Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/3(1989-09), 379-392 0034-4125 25:3<379 1989 25 RES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge