ABSTRACT
The book by Jacek Aleksander Prokopski, Søren Kierkegaard. Dialektyka parodoksu wiary was, at the moment of its publication, the third monograph dedicated to Kierkegaard in Poland. The main thesis of the book is thus the claim that the notion of faith, founded on Kierkegaard's dialectics of paradox, constitutes the central subject of his oeuvre with other themes revolving around it. While working to accomplish the task he set for himself, Prokopski makes use of what he terms the source-analytical-synthetic method. Prokopski's book begins this attempt at reading Kierkegaard with the explication of the most fundamental aspect of Kierkegaard's thought: communication. After sketching this, Prokopski moves on to what is crucial for both the thought of the Danish philosopher and the work under review-the problem of the existential view of faith. The author further presents the problem of the relation between faith and cognition based on historical knowledge. Prokopski's book concludes with a chapter that touches upon the problem of authority.
