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Introduction: Reading Kierkegaard -- Either or and the first upbuilding discourses -- Repetition, fear, and trembling, and more discourses -- Philosophical fragments, the concept of anxiety, and discourses -- Concluding unscientific postscript and two ages -- Works of love, discourses, and other writings -- The sickness unto death and discourses -- Practice in Christianity, discourses, and the attack -- Looking back and looking ahead

This textbook is a compilation of central and representative texts taken from the German Søren Kierkegaard Edition. This first volume contains texts from Kierkegaard's literary legacy drawn from the first three volumes of the German Søren Kierkegaard Edition

Starting around 1900, there is an intense discussion of the philosophy and literature of the ›Christian poet‹ Sören Kierkegaard amongst Jewish intellectuals in many different fields. In German-speaking Europe, this discussion culminates in euphoric and identificatory statements that fully appropriate Kierkegaard for Judaism or the »Jewish way of seeing the world«: »Nowhere« has the »core of the Jewish way of seeing the world« been captured as poignantly as in Kierkegaard's »Fear and Trembling«, says Max Brod in »Heidentum ‒ Christentum ‒ Judentum« (1921). In his diaries, the seventeen-year-old Gershom Scholem reflects on the »brilliant books« by the Dane and goes as far as to completely appropriate Kierkegaard for Judaism: »Kierkegaard is a Jew!« Such an empathic reception amongst Jews is remarkable considering the explicitly Christian thrust of many of Kierkegaard's writings. This begs the question of why and in what way Kierkegaard's work became particularly relevant in the context of Jewish Modernity. How is Kierkegaard's thought being used in that context, in theological, political and literary ways? What aspects of his writing become particularly attractive and inspirational? What is the impetus of the various interpretations of Kierkegaard and what function do they serve in the broader context, for example in discussions revolving around Jewish identity? Those questions have so far at most been raised marginally; in my dissertation, I have attempted to treat them more thoroughly and in context. The dissertation is divided into two big parts. The first section deals with the predominantly theoretical reception of Kierkegaard that thinkers such as Scholem, Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig practiced. The material treated mostly consists of philosophical and theological texts as well as autobiographical material such as diaries and letters; both explicit and implicit references are discussed. The second section deals with the literary reception of Kierkegaard and focuses mostly on what has become known as the ›Prager Kreis‹ through the writings of Max Brod. Besides Brod, Franz Kafka and Franz Werfel are of particular interest. The project aims to capture what could be called a dialogical network within which Kierkegaard was read, appropriated, transformed and partly also rejected.

Simone de Beauvoir : a founding feminist's appreciation of Kierkegaard / Ronald M. Green and Mary Jean Green -- Nicholas Berdyaev : Kierkegaard amongst the artists, mystics, and solitary thinkers / George Pattison -- Martin Buber : "No-one can so refute Kierkegaard as Kierkegaard himself" / Peter ajda -- Albert Camus : walled within god / Leo Stan -- Martin Heidegger : Kierkegaard's influence hidden and in full view / Vincent McCarthy -- Michel Henry : the goodness of living affectivity / Leo Stan -- Karl Jaspers : a great awakener's way to philosophy of existence / István Czakó -- Gabriel Marcel : the silence of truth / Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard Knox -- Jacques Maritain : Kierkegaard as "champion of the singular" / Nathaniel Kramer -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty : Kierkegaard's influence on his work / Elisabetta Basso -- Friedrich Nietzsche : rival visions of the best way of life / Thomas Miles -- Franz Rosenzweig : a kindred spirit in alignment with Kierkegaard / Claudia Welz -- Jean-Paul Sartre : Kierkegaard's influence on his Theory of nothingness / Manuela Hackel -- Lev Shestov : Kierkegaard in The ox of phalaris / George Pattison -- Miguel de Unamuno : Kierkegaard's Spanish "brother" / Jan E. Evans -- Jean Wahl : philosophies of existence and the introduction of Kierkegaard in the non-germanic world / Alejandro Cavallazzi Sánchez and Azucena Palavicini Sánchez.

""Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth."--Søren KierkegaardThe father of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. With only a sentence or two, he could plumb the depths of the human spirit. In this collection of some 800 quotations, the reader will find dazzling bon mots next to words of life-changing power. Drawing from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings, this book presents a broad selection of his wit and wisdom, as well as a stimulating introduction to his life and work.Organized by topic, this volume covers notable Kierkegaardian concerns such as anxiety, despair, existence, irony, and the absurd, but also erotic love, the press, busyness, and the comic. Here readers will encounter both well-known quotations ("Life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forward") and obscure ones ("Beware false prophets who come to you in wolves' clothing but inwardly are sheep--i.e., the phrasemongers"). Those who spend time in these pages will discover the writer who said, "my grief is my castle," but who also taught that "the best defense against hypocrisy is love."Illuminating and delightful, this engaging book also provides a substantial portrait of one of the most influential of modern thinkers. Gathers some 800 quotations Drawn from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings Includes an introduction, a brief account and timeline of Kierkegaard's life, a guide to further reading, and an index "--