ABSTRACT
The editors note that the essays appearing in this volume have been “locked up” from broad circulation in two ways. First, the essays in this work “originally appeared in Danish, French, German, Italian and Swedish, and have hitherto been ‘locked up’ in those languages.” Second, these essays “had first been published in learned journals and quarterlies of a technical character—and usually of a severely limited circulation.” Many of the essays appearing in this work “stem from the year 1955, the Centenary of Kierkegaard’s death.” A number of essays in this work provide a cross-examination of concepts in Kierkegaard that are often misunderstood even today. Overall, Johnson and Thulstrup put together a very strong collection of essays on Kierkegaard. They fulfilled their goal of providing a collection of high-quality, although obscure, international works on Kierkegaard to an English-speaking audience.
