ABSTRACT
Sören Kierkegaard became present in Hungarian thinking by means of presentations of his life and work in the 1930s. István Dévény's book is one of the attempts after 2000 that tried to fill the need generated by the shortage of biographies and presentations of the thought of Kierkegaard in Hungarian after the end of the 1960s. The book consists of two main parts. Part One gives a biographical reading of Kierkegaard's work. Dévény begins with a presentation of Copenhagen and Denmark in the Golden Age. Part Two is devoted to the presentation of Kierkegaard's influence on different areas of academic thinking. Dévény examines the productive reception of Kierkegaard's thoughts in literature, philosophy, theology, and psychology, providing numerous examples along the way. István Dévény's book about Kierkegaard is a compilation that bears witness to a wide knowledge of the secondary literature about Kierkegaard published in Germany from 1940 to 1980.
