ABSTRACT
Habib C. Malik work Receiving Soren Kierkegaard explores the breadth of influence in Soren Kierkegaard's own nineteenth-century Danish context. Malik also seeks to explore how Kierkegaard broke through the constraints and general disinterestedness of his contemporaries to becoming a thinker whom many see as the father of modern existentialism. Malik highlights early obstacles to the reception of Kierkegaard's work both in Denmark and abroad. Malik's methodology is primarily focused on collecting and organizing reactions to Kierkegaard in the works of other thinkers in order to present an overview of the movement of Kierkegaard's reception within and then beyond Denmark. Malik moves on to Kierkegaard's reception in the German-speaking world prior to and following the First World War. Malik highlights Rudolf Kassner and his "Sören Kierkegaard—Aphorismen" as very influential in introducing Kierkegaard to the German-speaking world. Malik follows the trails and provides examples of the travel of Kierkegaard's works through Germany.
