ABSTRACT
Soren Kierkegaards person och forfattarskap. Ett forsok was the first book on Kierkegaard written by a Swedish academic. Waldemar Rudin's book was based on a lecture series given at Uppsala in 1877, delivered in response to a lecture series on Kierkegaard held by the influential Danish-Jewish literary critic Georg Brandes in Uppsala and Stockholm in 1876. Brandes' lectures were published in 1877 in both Swedish and Danish and can be said to have pioneered the field of "Kierkegaard Studies" in Scandinavia. Rudin's book consists of an Introduction followed by seven chapters. According to Rudin, in saying, for example, that Kierkegaard did not put his talent "in the service of freedom but in the service of uncritical adoration", Brandes has missed "the very soul" (själen) in Kierkegaard's life and work. Rudin's book on Kierkegaard contributed to awakening and maintaining an interest in Kierkegaard in particular amongst Swedish theologians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
