Sensibility and Transcendence: Four Kierkegaardian Models

The article sketches four models of the relationship between sensibility and transcendence from a Kierkegaardian perspective. The first model suggests a sheer opposition: sensibility is the absolute opposite of transcendence. According to the second model sensibility and art are a negative expression of the transcendent. In the third model art shows what art cannot express through its own annihilation. In the last model the relation is between transcendence and a perception that is other than ordinary. This model is perhaps the greatest challenge to both art and religion, to both sensibility and transcendence.