Table Of ContentKierkegaard Studies
Yearbook 2010
Kierkegaard
Studies
Edited on behalf of the
Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre
by Niels Jørgen Cappelørn and Hermann Deuser
De Gruyter
Yearbook
2010
Kierkegaard’s Late Writings
Edited by
Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Hermann Deuser
and K. Brian Söderquist
De Gruyter
KierkegaardStudies
EditedonbehalfoftheSørenKierkegaardResearchCentre
byNielsJørgenCappelørnandHermannDeuser
Yearbook2010
EditedbyNielsJørgenCappelørn,HermannDeuser
andK.BrianSöderquist
ISBN 978-3-11-022301-9
e-ISBN 978-3-11-022302-6
ISSN 1612-9792
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Kierkegaard’s late writings / [edited by] Niels Jørgen Cappelørn,
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I. Cappelørn, Niels Jørgen. II. Deuser, Hermann, 1946(cid:2) III. Söder-
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Preface
The year 2009 was a time of structural transition for the Søren Kierke-
gaard Research Centre. From 1994 until the end of 2009, the Research
Centre was the site of two primary forms of interrelated research, one
concentrated on philological and historical details related to the new
Danish scholarly edition of Kierkegaard(cid:204)s writings, Søren Kierkegaards
Skrifter(SKS),andtheotherfocusedonthecontinuedevolutionofKier-
kegaardinterpretation.DuringthesefirstfifteenyearsoftheCentre(cid:204)sex-
istence – funded by grants from the Danish National Research Founda-
tion and the Danish government and, in 1999, officially designated
“The Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre Foundation” – the two re-
search wings of the Centre were housed under one roof and together
formedanautonomousinstitutionwithclosetiestothegreaterUniversi-
tyofCopenhagensystem.Beginningin2010,theCentreunderwentsome
administrativeandstructuraltransformations:thewingoverseeingschol-
arly activities became structurally independent from the philological
wing, though both are still housed under one roof at the Vartov building
inCopenhagen.ThephilologywingthatoverseesthepublicationofSKS,
tobecompletedin2012,isstillcalled“TheSørenKierkegaard Research
CentreFoundation.”Meanwhile,thescholarlyactivitieswinghasbeenin-
tegrated into the University of Copenhagen proper as a new department
attheFacultyofTheology,andisknownas“TheSørenKierkegaardRe-
search Centre–University ofCopenhagen.”AspartoftheUniversityof
Copenhagen, the Centre is now directly responsible for Kierkegaard re-
lated education, conferences, and seminars. Visiting senior scholars and
graduate students continue to make up an integral part of the Centre(cid:204)s
profile at the Vartov building and, as always, the Centre will continue
to welcome international scholars into the Centre community.
During this transition period, due in large part to budgetary con-
straints, the Centre was unable to host the annual summer seminar.
The seminar that was to have taken place in 2009 would have had been
themed on the last writings in Kierkegaard(cid:204)s published works, namely
“The High Priest”—“The Woman Who Sinned”—˝The Tax Collector,”
Three Discourses at Friday Communion; Practice in Christianity; An Ed-
ifying Discourse (1850); Two Discourses at Friday Communion (1851);
andOnMyWorkasanAuthor.AsreadersofKierkegaardStudies:Year-
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book know, the papers delivered at the annual Research Seminar in Au-
gustformedthebasisforourpublication,andwhilewe,theeditors,were
unabletodrawonsuchpapersforthisvolume,wehaveaskedagroupof
scholars to submit articles about these texts. These comprise the second
section of the Yearbook. Thus, with this volume, we have completed
our goal of publishing a body of secondary literature that treat every
one of Kierkegaard(cid:204)s works from 1838 to 1851 published in SKS.
Because this volume marks the completion of a fifteen year project,
the editors have chosen to mark the occasion with a series of studies by
the members of the original “Scholarly Committee” at the Centre, who
served in this capacity from 1994 to 1998, and who were founding mem-
bersoftheYearbookeditorialboard,namely,Prof.Dr.Dr.theol.h.c.Her-
mannDeuser,Prof.Dr.C.StephenEvans,Prof.Dr.AlastairHannay,and
Prof. Dr. Bruce H. Kirmmse. We have asked these scholars to reflect on
the reasons they originally became engaged with Kierkegaard, and what
they have taken away from a career in dialogue with Kierkegaard(cid:204)s au-
thorship. These reflections make up the first section of this volume of
the Yearbook.
Wehavealsoaskedagroupofyoungscholarswhowereinresidence
attheCentreandwhohaverecently finishedPh.D.dissertationstowrite
articles on one of the central aspects of their research. Their studies are
found in the third section.
ThisvolumeoftheYearbookisalsothelastoneoverseenbythepres-
ent editors. The future of the Yearbook is unclear at the moment, and
thoughsomeoftheoriginalaimshavebeenmet,theeditorsandpublish-
eragreethatitscontinuedpublicationwouldbevaluablefortheKierke-
gaard community. It has been greatly satisfying as editors to follow the
developmentandevolutionofKierkegaardscholarship,notleastbecause
it has been possible to see at close hand the work of brilliant younger
scholars who have already made significant contributions with nuanced
interpretations of Kierkegaard(cid:204)s work, and who will no doubt continue
to do so in the future. We are pleased that the Yearbook has been listed
as a B level journal on the “European Reference Index for the Human-
ities (ERIH): Philosophy,” which reflects the quality of the contributions
over the years.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Walter de Gruyter
Verlag and Dr. Albrecht Dçhnert, the Editor-in-Chief responsible for
Kierkegaardrelatedpublications,fortheircontinualsupportandproduc-
tive cooperation. The cover of the Yearbook has changed from time to
time over the past fifteen years, and in these changes, we recognize the
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professional expertise involved in making the appearance of Yearbook
stand out as a scholarly publication.
Atthesametime,wewishtothankphilologicalassistant IreneRing,
without whom this volume, and others preceding it, could not have been
completed. She has succeeded with the trying task of locating and recti-
fyingtheinconsistencies–fromarticletoarticleandfromvolumetovol-
ume–thatinevitablyarisewithapublicationofthissort.Aseveryeditor
and author has experienced, it is one thing to read a set of publication
guidelines, it is another to successfully follow them. Irene has likewise
overseen the collection of all the information published in the “News”
sectionoftheYearbook,andhasaptlymanagedinternalandexternalcor-
respondence.
July 2010 Niels Jørgen Cappelørn
Hermann Deuser
K. Brian Sçderquist
Contents
Section 1
HermannDeuser
WarumimmerwiederKierkegaard? ......................... 3
C.StephenEvans
Why Kierkegaard Still Matters – and Matters to Me .......... 21
Alastair Hannay
Why Kierkegaard in Particular? ............................ 33
Bruce H. Kirmmse
Poetry, History – and Kierkegaard .......................... 49
Section 2
SylviaWalsh
Comparing Genres: The Woman Who Was a Sinner in
Kierkegaard(cid:204)s Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays
and An Upbuilding Discourse .............................. 71
Vincent Delecroix
Final Words: Training in Christianity as a Terminal Writing .... 91
Pierre B(cid:240)hler
„ModsigelsensTegn“.EinekleinechristologischeSemiotik ..... 117
DavidR.Law
The Existential Chalcedonian Christology of Kierkegaard(cid:204)s
Practice in Christianity .................................... 129
Joel D. S. Rasmussen
Poetry,Piety,andPaideiainKierkegaard(cid:204)sPracticeinChristianity 153
