ABSTRACT
Karol Toeplitz's Kierkegaard is a unique publication that comprises the first monograph-length study dedicated to Kierkegaard in Poland and a collection of some of Kierkegaard's primary texts translated into Polish. Its origins are to be traced to Toeplitz's doctoral thesis defended in 1967 under the supervision of Leszek Kolakowski at Warsaw University, entitled Faith and the Moral Choice in S. Kierkegaard. The short biography of Kierkegaard minimizes the influence of his life on his work and emphasizes the influence of his pietistic upbringing and theological studies. Toeplitz's monograph provides invaluable information about Kierkegaard and his works in a particular socio-historical context. The thinker and his works are given a coherent account, showing that his philosophy is, on the one hand, a conversation with Christianity, and that is why it is not necessarily Christian, and, on the other hand, a conversation with his contemporaries, which is why he should be read as a reactionary philosopher.
