Authorship and Authority in Kierkegaard's Writings

Joseph Westfall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston-Downtown, USA. He is the author of The Kierkegaardian Author (2007), editor of The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader (Bloomsbury, 2018), and co-editor of Foucault and Nietzsche: A Critical Encounter (Bloomsbury, 2018).

• IntroductionJoseph Westfall, University of Houston-Downtown, USA1. Kierkegaard qua Author: “Like the Guadalquibir River”Sylvia Walsh, Stetson University, USA2. Rhetoric and Understanding: Authorship as Christian MissionRobert C. Roberts, Baylor University, USA3. Illegible Salvation: The Authority of Language in The Concept of AnxietySarah Horton, Boston College, USA4. The Very Tang of Life: Lyrical Jesting in Kierkegaard’s Postscript TitleEdward F. Mooney, Syracuse University, USA5. Inside the Escritoire: On Kierkegaard’s Erotic Theory of CommunicationMichael Strawser, University of Central Florida, USA6. A Desire to Be Understood: Authorship and Authority in Kierkegaard’s WorkDaniel Berthold, Bard College, USA7. Kierkegaard the HumoristMarilyn Piety, Drexel University, USA8. Kierkegaard’s Scene Changes: Authorship as Dramaturgical PracticeSophie Wennerscheid, University of Ghent, Belgium9. Kierkegaard on the Art of StorytellingEleanor Helms, California Polytechnic State University, USA10. “I Came to Carthage”; “So I Arrived in Berlin”: Fleeing and Escape in Augustine’s Confessions and Kierkegaard’s RepetitionEric Ziolkowski, Lafayette College, USA11. On “S.K.”: Selfhood and Signature in Kierkegaard and Sarah KofmanJoseph Westfall,University of Houston-Downtown, USA12. Kierkegaard—What “Kind” of Writer?: A DialogueGeorge Pattison, University of Glasgow, UKIndex

“Authorship and Authority” or “A Master of Disguises” – this collection by renowned and early career Kierkegaard scholars weaves a tapestry of different approaches and voices as diverse as Kierkegaard’s authorship itself. A must-read for anyone interested in the work of the elusive Dane and the ‘meta-philosophy’ of his pseudonymous and non-pseudonymous writings.