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