A Companion to Kierkegaard

Notes on Contributors ix     Acknowledgments xiii     Chronology of Kierkegaard\'s Works xiv     List of Abbreviations xviii     Editor\'s Introduction: Kierkegaard and the Rich Field of Kierkegaard Studies 1     Part I Philosophy 19     A. Sources 21     1 A Shimmering Socrates: Philosophy and Poetry in Kierkegaard\'s Platonic Authorship 23 Jacob Howland     2 Kierkegaard\'s Use of German Philosophy: Leibniz to Fichte 36 Roe Fremstedal     3 Kierkegaard\'s View of Hegel, His Followers and Critics 50 Jon Stewart     4 Kierkegaard\'s Relations to Danish Philosophy of the Golden Age 66 Carl Henrik Koch     B. Reception 81     5 Kierkegaard and Existentialism: From Anxiety to Autonomy 83 K. Brian Soderquist     6 Postmodernism and Deconstruction: Paradox, Sacrifice, and the Future of Writing 96 Marius Timmann Mjaaland     C. Concepts and Contributions 111     7 Kierkegaard\'s Views on Normative Ethics, Moral Agency, and Metaethics 113 Roe Fremstedal     8 Kierkegaard\'s Skepticism 126 Dario Gonzalez     Part II Theology and Religious Studies 139     A. Sources 141     9 Kierkegaard and Biblical Studies: A Critical Response to Nineteenth  ]Century Hermeneutics 143 Lee C. Barrett     10 Grace and Rigor in Kierkegaard\'s Reception of the Church Fathers 155 Jack Mulder, Jr.     11 Kierkegaard\'s Mystical and Spiritual Sources: Meister Eckhart to Tersteegen 167 Peter Sajda     12 Kierkegaard\'s Appropriation and Critique of Luther and Lutheranism 180 Lee C. Barrett     13 Shapers of Kierkegaard\'s Danish Church: Mynster, Grundtvig, Martensen 193 Curtis L. Thompson     B. Reception 207     14 From Barth to Tillich: Kierkegaard and the Dialectical Theologians 209 Heiko Schulz     15 Other Lutheran Theologians Responding Contextually to Kierkegaard 223 Curtis L. Thompson     16 Catholicism: Finding Inspiration and Provocation in Kierkegaard 237 Christopher B. Barnett and Peter Sajda     C. Concepts and Contributions 251     17 Kierkegaard as Existentialist Dogmatician: Kierkegaard on Systematic Theology, Doctrine, and Dogmatics 253 David R. Law     18 Biblical Variations: Kierkegaard\'s Rewritten \"Life of Jesus\" 269 Iben Damgaard     19 Rethinking Religion Existentially: New Approaches to Classical Problems of Religious Philosophy in Kierkegaard 281 Istvan Czako     Part III Aesthetics, the Arts, and Literary Theory 295     A. Sources 297     20 Kierkegaard\'s Use of German Literature 299 Joachim Grage     21 Kierkegaard and the Aesthetics of the Danish Golden Age 311 Nathaniel Kramer     B. Reception 325     22 Literature and (Anti  ])Humanism 327 Poul Houe     23 Kierkegaard\'s Influence on Literary Criticism and Theory: Irony, Repetition, Silence 341 J.D. Mininger     C. Concepts and Contributions 353     24 Existence and the Aesthetic Forms 355 Dario Gonzalez     25 Kierkegaard\'s Theatrical Aesthetic from Repetition to Imitation 367 Timothy Stock     Part IV Social Sciences and Politics 381     A. Sources 383     26 Politics, Society, and Theology in Golden Age Denmark: Key Themes and Figures 385 Stephen Backhouse     27 Reflections on Late Modernity: Kierkegaard in the \"Present Age\" 399 Daniel Conway     B. Reception 413     28 Between Anthropology, Sociology, and Psychology: The Insider/Outsider Self 415 Simon D. Podmore     29 Kierkegaard\'s Social  ]Political Posterity: A Still Unnavigated Maze 435 Leo Stan     C. Concepts and Contributions 451     30 Kierkegaard\'s Conception of Psychology: How to Understand It and Why It Still Matters 453 Rene Rosfort     31 Kierkegaard and the Limits of Philosophical Anthropology 468 Jamie Turnbull     32 Prolegomena for Thinking of Kierkegaard as a Social and Political Philosopher 480 J. Michael Tilley     33 Making Kierkegaard Relevant to Education Today 490 Timothy Hall     Index 502