ABSTRACT
Mark C. Taylor's study, Journeys to Selfhood: Hegel and Kierkegaard, was first published by the University of California Press in 1980. When Taylor's study appeared in 1980, it marked a refreshing break from the long series of partisan studies, virtually all of which inevitably concluded that Soren Kierkegaard had nothing but disdain and animosity for G. W. F. Hegel. Instead of merely taking up Kierkegaard's side on each of the issues as Thulstrup does, Taylor offers a much more balanced assessment in an effort to bring the two thinkers into a genuine dialogue. The problem of modern self-identity or of the individual's self-conception, at least so formulated, is more important for Taylor's philosophical agenda than for Hegel's. Taylor's theme-oriented procedure can thus be seen as distorting in individual analyses and does not allow him to take into account the intellectual-biographical development of Kierkegaard's relation to Hegel.
