ABSTRACT
The volume, published in 1994, contains the proceedings of a grand-scale conference held in Budapest in December 1992. It was organized by the Hungarian writer and essayist András Nagy and accompanied by an exposition, a concert, a cabaret, and a theatre performance. Yet the conference was a milestone in the philosophical life of Hungary, largely because it was linked to international research projects. As the list of the contributors suggests, the conference was the fusion of ideas by prominent scholars from Western Europe and the United States, who represented the main lines of international Kierkegaard research as well as Hungarian literary scholars. The section Philosophy covers quite a wide range of topics and approaches: the aesthetic-philosophical relationship between Kierkegaard and early German Romanticism. For most of the authors of the section Philosophy of Religion, Lutheran Protestant theology is foundational for understanding Kierkegaard's philosophy. The conference brought to consciousness the enduring interest in the Danish philosopher and the ignorance surrounding him.
