Kierkegaard is to be taken seriously as a philosopher at the turn of the twenty-first century, and emerges as a vital participant in some of the liveliest controversies in modern philosophy. While some of the essays included here establish Kierkegaard's relevance to the post-modern critique, of logocentrism, others emphasize his contributions to critical social theory.

IntroductionMerold Westphal and Martin J. Matustik Sigla1. THe Kierkegaard-Effect in the Shaping of the Contours of ModernityCalvin O. Schrag2. Sartre's Debts to Kierkegaard: A Partial ReckoningWilliam L. McBride3. Heidegger's Reading of Kierkegaard Revisited: From Ontological Abstraction to Ethical ConcretionPatricia J. Huntington4. God, Anxiety, and Female DivinityAlison Leigh Brown5. Kierkegaard's View of the UnconsciousC. Stephen Evans6. Amatory Cures for Material Dis-ease: A Kristevian Reading of The Sickness unto DeathTamsin Lorraine7. Kierkegaard and Feminism: Apologetic, Repetition, and DialogueWanda Warren Berry8. Paradoxes in Interpretation: Kierkegaard and GadamerStephen N. Dunning9. Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and a Method of "Virtue Ethics"Robert C. Roberts10. The Politics of Existence: Buber and KiergaardRobert L. Perkins11. Communicative Freedom and Negative TheologyJurgen HabermasTranslated with Notes by Martin J. Matustik and Patricia J. Huntington12. Kierkegaard and Critical TheoryJames L. Marsh13. Instants, Secrets, and Singularities: Dealing Death in Kierkegaard and DerridaJohn D. Cputo14. Kierkegaard's Radical Existential Praxis, or: Why the Individual Defies Liberal, Communitarian, and Postmodern CategoriesMartin J. Matustik15. The Transparent Shadow: Kierkegaard and Levina in DialogueMerole WestphalWorks CitedContributorsIndex