ABSTRACT
In Poland, unlike in Germany and France, an interest in Søren Kierkegaard appeared relatively late and in an indirect way. In Germany Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers (apart from a considerable group of Protestant theologians) had drawn ideas and notions from the already existing comprehensive German translations of Kierkegaard’s works. The same thing was the case with Jean Paul Sartre in France. To a certain degree, their existential philosophies assimilated some of Kierkegaard’s categories and ideas. In Poland, however, things were different. The interest in the philosophical and theological reflection of the “father of existentialism” appeared almost at the same time as the interest in Heidegger, Jaspers, Sartre, and Marcel; and for many years (after the Second World War), we looked at Kierkegaard through the eyes of his later followers and philosophical relatives. In such a situation, one can talk of intellectual mediation in reference to Kierkegaard.
