ABSTRACT

Kierkegaard and Philosophy makes many of the most important papers on Kierkegaard available in one place for the first time. These seventeen essays, written over a period of over twenty years, have all been substantially revised or specially prepared for this collection, with a new introduction by the author.

In the first part, Alastair Hannay concentrates on Kierkegaard's central philosophical writings, offering closely text-based accounts of the silent concepts Kierkegaard uses. The second part shows the relevance of other thinkers' treatments of shared themes, pointing out where they differ from Kierkegaard. The concluding chapter provides a reason Kierkegaard himself would give for disagreeing with those who claim his texts are infinitely interpretable.

Written by the world's foremost Kierkegaard scholar and translator, Kierkegaard and Philosophy is an indispensible resource for all students of Kierkegaard's work.

part I|120 pages

Philosophy

part II|100 pages

Connections and Confrontations

chapter 9|11 pages

Commitment and Paradox

chapter 10|13 pages

Humour and the Irascible Soul

chapter 11|13 pages

Proximity as Apartness

chapter 12|16 pages

Levelling and Einebnung

chapter 15|6 pages

Two Ways of Coming Backto Reality

Kierkegaard and Lukács

chapter 16|11 pages

Nietzsche/Kierkegaard

chapter 17|3 pages

Decisively Disconnected