ABSTRACT
C. Stephen Evans, who is currently University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Baylor University and former curator of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, masterfully engages these two texts at an introductory level. It can be argued that the Fragments, and especially the Postscript, are Kierkegaard’s most philosophically astute and thus challenging works. Targeting an introductory audience, Evans rightly spends the first few chapters elucidating major themes in the broader Kierkegaardian corpus. For Evans, to understand Climacus correctly is also to understand Kierkegaard’s existence spheres, the necessity of the pseudonymous literature for achieving authorial goals, the impact of G.W.F. Hegel during the period, and perhaps most importantly the task of becoming a self. The aforementioned is just one Kierkegaardian category that Evans sees as essential to understanding Climacus.
