ABSTRACT
One of the most significant efforts to bring the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard into an educational dialogue is Ronald J. Manheimer's Kierkegaard as Educator. There had been several attempts at this type of endeavor scattered in the literature of philosophy and education prior to this volume. But it is in this essential text on the subject that a much stronger understanding of Kierkegaard's "dialectic of education" is advanced. According to Manheimer, the next movement is coupled to the relation between the paradoxical nature of subjectivity and the need for passion to become an individual. Manheimer skillfully presents Kierkegaard's indirect communication in Either/Or that is typified by multiple voices, irony, and textual disruptions, which disrupt a "quick and easy" interpretation of the text and force the reader to struggle with decisions on a subjective basis. Despite Manheimer's profundity in the reading of Kierkegaard's texts, his dialectic can be overshadowed by deficiencies from an educational perspective.
