ABSTRACT
Since the age of Soren Kierkegaard, Continental philosophy has tended to take on a postmetaphysical guise. Michael Weston's answer to the last question is a resounding "no." The aim of Kierkegaard and Modern Continental Philosophy is to show that post-metaphysical thinkers share several of the "aspects of the philosophical enterprise" that Kierkegaard is concerned to expose and reject in his authorship. Though Weston respects the variety of positions taken by post-metaphysical philosophers, his introductory summaries show these thinkers to be united in the fact that they propose intellectual solutions to the problem of human existence. Weston does not use the Hongs' translation, which was available to him; nor does he utilize any secondary scholarship on Kierkegaard. As Weston himself notes, intellectual debate and argumentation are only preparatory for Nietzsche: it should eventually lead to new human beings who simply and instinctively act in creative affirmation.
