ABSTRACT
Defiance (Trods) appears most often in The Sickness unto Death, with a subsection dedicated to the concept.3 It appears with limited explanation throughout the upbuilding discourses of 1843 and 1844, as well as receiving some treatment in The Concept of Anxiety. Beyond these three texts defiance is peppered throughout the entire authorship, from The Concept of Irony to installments of The Moment. Though not appearing in every text, the concept is employed in pseudonymous and signed works, and it appears in most genres of Kierkegaard’s writing (including the journals), with the notable exception of the short polemical writings of his student years.
