ABSTRACT

In the series “Spiritual Geniuses” whose goal, in the words of the publisher, is to introduce the public to some of the great geniuses of history, the lot has now fallen to Søren Kierkegaard. The book, which is introduced with “a personal preface,”1 is divided into two parts. The first part is entitled “Kierkegaard’s World” and consists of five short sections.2 Here the reader is initiated into Kierkegaard’s life and work, a process undertaken in part by the author and in part by means of various interviews with a host of Kierkegaard researchers. The second part consists of “Selected Texts from Kierkegaard’s Works.”3 The book concludes with a chronology.4