Kierkegaard: The Self in Society

Kierkegaard: The Self in Society brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore Kierkegaard's continuing relevance to political and social issues. Kierkegaard is often portrayed as an out-and-out individualist with no concern for interpersonal relations. These essays not only refute this caricature, they bring out the complex nature of Kierkegaard's engagements with questions of selfhood and society. What Kierkegaard has to say about love, the church, politics and justice is shown to test the limits of what we take for granted in the modern (and postmodern) world.

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Editors' Introduction The Place of the World in Kierkegaard's Ethics; M.G.Piety Climacan Politics: Polis and Person in Kierkegaard's Postscript; Robert L.Perkins The Possibilities for Personhood in a Context of (Hitherto Unknown) Possibilities; Anita Craig Something Anti-Social About Works of Love; Peter George Kierkegaard's Critique of Pure Irony; Anthony Rudd Books About Nothing? Kierkegaard's Liberating Rhetoric; Steven Shakespeare Is Love of Neighbour the Love of an Individual?; Martin Andic Cities of the Dead: the Relation of Person and Polis in Kierkegaard's Works of Love; Hugh Pyper Repetition and Justice: A Derridean/Kierkegaardian Reading of the Subject; Mark Dooley A 'Socio-reading' of the Kierkegaardian Self: or, the Space of Lowliness in the Time of the Disciple; Jim Perkinson 'But I am Almost Never Understood...' or, Who Killed Soren Kierkegaard?; Bruce Kirmmse Abraham the Communist; Andras Nagy Index

MARTIN ANDIC Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston ANITA CRAIG Research Fellow, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) MARK DOOLEY Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University College, Dublin PETER GEORGE held a Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Kierkegaard Research Centre BRUCE KIRMMSE is a historian of ideas who teaches in Connecticut College and at Copenhagen University ANDRAS NAGY is a novelist and playwright ROBERT L. PERKINS Chair of Philosophy, Stetson University (Florida) JAMES W. PERKINSON is a PhD candidate in Theology, University of Chicago, and Adjunct Professor in Religious Studies, Marygrove College, Detroit M.G. PIETY Lecturer, Denmark's International Study Program HUGH PYPER teaches Biblical Studies, University of Leeds ANTHONY RUDD teaches Philosophy, University of Bristol.