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Book SynopsisThis introduction to the writings of S?ren Kierkegaard is for anyone who has felt daunted by the prospect of reading and understanding the work of one of the most important yet elusive 19th century thinkers. Kierkegaard scholar M.
Trade Review“Ferreira manages with fine-grained precision to chart a double strand through Kierkegaard's life-works, 1843-55. Only a miniaturist of her especially sharp eye and steady hand could accomplish this in anything like the accuracy and detail everywhere so evident.” (
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, March 2009)
Table of ContentsPreface.
List of Abbreviations.
1. Introduction: Reading Kierkegaard.
2. Either – Or and the First Upbuilding Discourses.
3. Repetition, Fear and Trembling, and More Discourses.
4. Philosophical Fragments, The Concept Of Anxiety, and Discourses.
5. Concluding Unscientific Postscript and Two Ages.
6. Works of Love, Discourses, and Other Writings.
7. The Sickness unto Death and Discourses.
8. Practice in Christianity, Discourses, and the “Attack”.
9. Looking Back and Looking Ahead.
Index