Tome II is dedicated to exploring Kierkegaard's influence on Francophone philosophy. The French intellectual tradition squares well with Kierkegaard's eclectic profile since its leading figures are often difficult to classify unambiguously as philosophers, theologians, literary critics or simply writers. Kierkegaard's thinking has been highly influential for many generations of French philosophers up to the present. It was not just existentialism that tried to co-opt Kierkegaard for its own purposes; he has also been influential in the context of almost every modern school of French thought: phenomenology, feminism, structuralism, post-structuralism, semiotics and deconstruction.

Contents: Sylviane Agacinski: reading Kierkegaard to keep intact the secret, Kevin Newmark; Roland Barthes: style, language, silence, Joseph Westfall; Georges Bataille: Kierkegaard and the claim for the sacred, Laura Llevadot; Maurice Blanchot: spaces of literature/spaces of religion, Daniel Greenspan; Gilles Deleuze: Kierkegaard's presence in his writings, José Miranda Justo; Jacques Derrida: faithful heretics, Marius Timmann Mjaaland; Jacques Ellul: Kierkegaard's profound and seldom acknowledged influence on Ellul's writing, Sarah Pike Cabral; Pierre Hadot: philosophy as a way of life: Hadot and Kierkegaard's Socrates, Nicolae Irina; Emmanuel Levinas: an ambivalent but decisive reception, Jeffrey Hanson; Jean-Luc Marion: the paradoxical givenness of love, Leo Stan; Paul Ricoeur: on Kierkegaard, the limits of philosophy, and the consolation of hope, Joel D.S. Rasmussen; Indexes.