ABSTRACT
Gillian Rose’s (1947-95) work mixes ethics, aesthetics, social theory, critical theory, and religious thought. Her mix of interests leads to a distinctive engagement with Kierkegaard’s works. She approaches Kierkegaard’s authorship not from the perspective of one discipline or another, but with an openness and sensitivity that is particularly useful for writing about someone, such as Kierkegaard, whose writings mix literary sensibilities, philosophical sophistication, and religious concerns. Rose does not approach Kierkegaard with a set of questions to be answered or a set of concepts to be refined. At times it seems as though she cedes her authorial voice to his, but it is in the mixing of voices, of hers and his, that new questions are opened, that what seemed settled and easy becomes troubled and difficult.
