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

<b>Jon Stewart</b> is Associate Professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen. He is the editor of the <i>Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources</i>, <i>Texts from Golden Age Denmark</i> and <i>Danish Golden Age Studies</i> series. He is the co-editor of the <i>Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook</i> and the <i>Kierkegaard Studies Monograph</i> series. Former leader of the Nordic Network of Kierkegaard Research and the International Kierkegaard Network, his published books include, <i>Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered</i> (2003), <i>Idealism and Existentialism: Hegel and Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Philosophy</i> (2010), <i>The Unity of Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit": A Systematic Interpretation</i> (2011), <i>The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing: The Perils of Conformity</i> (2013), and <i>The Cultural Crisis of the Danish Golden Age: Heiberg, Martensen and Kierkegaard </i>(2015).

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