Volume 15, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Concepts Absolute to Church

Kierkegaard’s Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard’s writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship, which discusses the etymology and lexical meaning of the relevant Danish term, traces the development of the concept over the course of the authorship, and explains how it functions in the wider context of Kierkegaard’s thought. Concepts have been selected on the basis of their importance for Kierkegaard’s contributions to philosophy, theology, the social sciences, literature and aesthetics, thereby making this volume an ideal reference work for students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines.

Contents: Preface; Absolute, Steven M. Emmanuel; Absurd, Sean Anthony Turchin; Actuality/ideality, Steven M. Emanuel; Admiration, Guadalupe Pardi; Aesthetic/aesthetics, William McDonald; Allegory, J.D. Mininger; Ambiguity, Jacobo Zabalo; Anonymity, Joseph Westfall; Anthropology, Sean Anthony Turchin; Anxiety, William McDonald; Aphorisms, Henrike Fürstenberg; Apologetics, Curtis L. Thompson; Apostle, Steven M. Emmanuel; Appropriation, Sean Anthony Turchin; Approximation, Sean Anthony Turchin; Archimedean point, Diego Giordano; Art, Nathaniel Kramer; Asceticism, David Coe; Atonement/reconciliation, Lee C. Barrett; Authority, Sean Anthony Turchin; Authorship, Joseph Westfall; Baptism, David Coe; Beginning, Sean Anthony Turchin; Being/becoming, Claudine Davidshofer; Calling, Robert B. Puchniak; Care/concern, Gerhard Thonhauser; Category, Claudine Davidshofer; Catholicism, Christopher B. Barnett; Cause/effect, Shannon M. Nason; Certainty, Sara Carvalhais de Oliveira; Chatter, Peter Fenves; Childhood, Esben Lindemann; Choice, Gerhard Thonhauser; Christ, Leo Stan; Christendom, J. Michael Tilley; Church, J. Michael Tilley.

Steven M. Emmanuel is Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Wesleyan College in the USA. William McDonald lectures in the School of Humanities at the University of New England, Australia. Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.