ABSTRACT
The Basic Lines of Kierkegaard's Thought, a short book by László Széles, was published by Sárkány in Budapest in 1930. The study is divided into 8 chapters. The first chapter is entitled The Current Relevance and Purpose of Kierkegaard Studies. Chapter 2 presents the life and personality of Kierkegaard, while emphasizing the two symbols of his life, and his subjectivism. The title of Chapter 3 is The Critical Attitude of Kierkegaard. Chapter 4 is a brief presentation of the methodology and aims of Kierkegaard's writings, namely, the dialectics of statements of existence. Chapter 5 deals with the question which no Kierkegaard researcher can avoid. One of the most complicated chapters in the book is Chapter 6, here Széles tries to explain the following categories: the leap, repetition, and paradox. Chapter 7 explains the previous categories related to the Kierkegaardian stages. The final chapter, A Critical Appreciation, is the summary of the previous chapters.
