This companion probes the full depth of Kierkegaard's thought revealing its distinctive subtlety. The topics covered include Kierkegaard's views on art and religion, ethics and psychology, theology and politics, and knowledge and virtue. Much attention is devoted to the influence of Kierkegaard on twentieth-century philosophy. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Kierkegaard currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Kierkegaard.

Table of Contents

I "Out with It!": The modern breakthrough, Kierkegaard and Denmark

2 The unknown Kierkegaard: Twentieth-century receptions

3 Art in an age of reflection

4 Kierkegaard and Hegel

5 Neither either nor or: The perils of reflexive irony

6 Realism and antirealism in Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript

7 Existence, emotion, and virtue: Classical themes in Kierkegaard

8 Faith and the Kierkegaardian leap

9 Arminian edification: Kierkegaard on grace and free will

10 "Developing" Fear and Trembling

11 Repetition: Getting the world back

12 Anxiety in The Concept of Anxiety

13 Kierkegaard and the variety of despair

14 Kierkegaard's Christian ethics

15 Religious dialectics and Christology

16 The utilitarian self and the "useless" passion of faith