ABSTRACT
Lewis A. Lawson's work Soren Kierkegaard's Presence in Contemporary American Life: Essays from Various Disciplines was published by the Scarecrow Press in 1971. Lawson introduces his project by tracing Kierkegaard's introduction to the United States and his growing popularity over the first half of the twentieth century. This introduction includes more obscure facts like the study of Kierkegaard at Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Illinois as early as 1887, like the efforts of Alexander Dru, David Swenson, and Walter Lowrie beginning in the 1930s to translate a majority of Kierkegaard's works into English. Lawson has gathered a seemingly random assortment of cross disciplinary articles, ranging from Howard Johnson's "Kierkegaard and Politics" originally published in Johnson's A Kierkegaard Critique, to John R. Scudder, Jr.'s "Kierkegaard and the Responsible Enjoyment of Children." Although philosophy is the best represented, the other represented disciplines include psychology, sociology, anthropology, music, literature, education, communication, and counseling.
