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A Companion to Kierkegaard
Edited by
Jon Stewart
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Cover image: Luplau Janssen, Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, 1902, 100 × 70 cm. The Museum of National History
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Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Chronology of Kierkegaard’s Works xiv
List of Abbreviations xviii
Editor’s Introduction: Kierkegaard and the Rich Field of Kierkegaard Studies 1
Part I Philosophy 19
A. Sources 21
1 A Shimmering Socrates: Philosophy and Poetry in Kierkegaard’s
Platonic Authorship 23
Jacob Howland
2 Kierkegaard’s Use of German Philosophy: Leibniz to Fichte 36
Roe Fremstedal
3 Kierkegaard’s View of Hegel, His Followers and Critics 50
Jon Stewart
4 Kierkegaard’s Relations to Danish Philosophy of the Golden Age 66
Carl Henrik Koch
B. Reception 81
5 Kierkegaard and Existentialism: From Anxiety to Autonomy 83
K. Brian Söderquist
Contents
6 Postmodernism and Deconstruction: Paradox, Sacrifice, and
the Future of Writing 96
Marius Timmann Mjaaland
C. Concepts and Contributions 111
7 Kierkegaard’s Views on Normative Ethics, Moral Agency, and Metaethics 113
Roe Fremstedal
8 Kierkegaard’s Skepticism 126
Darío González
Part II Theology and Religious Studies 139
A. Sources 141
9 Kierkegaard and Biblical Studies: A Critical Response to
Nineteenth‐Century Hermeneutics 143
Lee C. Barrett
10 Grace and Rigor in Kierkegaard’s Reception of the Church Fathers 155
Jack Mulder, Jr.
11 Kierkegaard’s Mystical and Spiritual Sources: Meister Eckhart to Tersteegen 167
Peter Šajda
12 Kierkegaard’s Appropriation and Critique of Luther and Lutheranism 180
Lee C. Barrett
13 Shapers of Kierkegaard’s Danish Church: Mynster, Grundtvig, Martensen 193
Curtis L. Thompson
B. Reception 207
14 From Barth to Tillich: Kierkegaard and the Dialectical Theologians 209
Heiko Schulz
15 Other Lutheran Theologians Responding Contextually to
Kierkegaard 223
Curtis L. Thompson
16 Catholicism: Finding Inspiration and Provocation in Kierkegaard 237
Christopher B. Barnett and Peter Šajda
C. Concepts and Contributions 251
17 Kierkegaard as Existentialist Dogmatician: Kierkegaard
on Systematic Theology, Doctrine, and Dogmatics 253
David R. Law
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18 Biblical Variations: Kierkegaard’s Rewritten “Life of Jesus” 269
Iben Damgaard
19 Rethinking Religion Existentially: New Approaches to
Classical Problems of Religious Philosophy in Kierkegaard 281
István Czakó
Part III Aesthetics, the Arts, and Literary Theory 295
A. Sources 297
20 Kierkegaard’s Use of German Literature 299
Joachim Grage
21 Kierkegaard and the Aesthetics of the Danish Golden Age 311
Nathaniel Kramer
B. Reception 325
22 Literature and (Anti‐)Humanism 327
Poul Houe
23 Kierkegaard’s Influence on Literary Criticism and Theory:
Irony, Repetition, Silence 341
J.D. Mininger
C. Concepts and Contributions 353
24 Existence and the Aesthetic Forms 355
Darío González
25 Kierkegaard’s Theatrical Aesthetic from Repetition to Imitation 367
Timothy Stock
Part IV Social Sciences and Politics 381
A. Sources 383
26 Politics, Society, and Theology in Golden Age Denmark:
Key Themes and Figures 385
Stephen Backhouse
27 Reflections on Late Modernity: Kierkegaard in the “Present Age” 399
Daniel Conway
B. Reception 413
28 Between Anthropology, Sociology, and Psychology: The Insider/Outsider Self 415
Simon D. Podmore
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29 Kierkegaard’s Social‐Political Posterity: A Still Unnavigated Maze 435
Leo Stan
C. Concepts and Contributions 451
30 Kierkegaard’s Conception of Psychology: How to Understand It and
Why It Still Matters 453
René Rosfort
31 Kierkegaard and the Limits of Philosophical Anthropology 468
Jamie Turnbull
32 Prolegomena for Thinking of Kierkegaard as a Social
and Political Philosopher 480
J. Michael Tilley
33 Making Kierkegaard Relevant to Education Today 490
Timothy Hall
Index 502
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