Frances Maughan-Brown is Lecturer in Philosophy and the First Year Program at the College of the Holy Cross, USA.Rick Anthony Furtak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College, USA.

• Preface, Frances Maughan-Brown (College of the Holy Cross, USA) and Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College, USA)Part I: The Lily and the Bird1. The Remains: Let it be Lily, Frances Maughan-Brown (College of the Holy Cross, USA)2. Considering the Birds of the Air: Winged Creatures of Uncertainty and Belief, Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College, USA)Part II: On Reading3. On Beginning and Listening in Kierkegaard’s The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air, Iben Damgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)4. The Temptation of Ambiguity, Elizabeth X. Li (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)5. Prudence and Openness in Kierkegaard’s Lilies and Birds, Erin Plunkett (University of Hertfordshire, UK)6. The Music of the Poet and the Sounds of the Lily and the Bird, Elisabete M. de Sousa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)Part III: Either/Or Again7. Repeating Either/Or?, George Pattison (University of Glasgow, UK)8. From “the Starry Heavens Above” to “the Lily of the Field”, Marcia Robinson (Syracuse University, USA) 9. Taming the Troll: Kierkegaard on Self-Torment, Aestheticism, and Faith, Genia Schönbaumsfeld (University of Southampton, UK)10. Kierkegaard on Natural and Artistic Beauty, Antony Aumann (University of Northern Michigan, USA)Part IV: Between Two Virtues 11. Contentment and Discontentment with Being Human, Adam Buben (Leiden University, the Netherlands)12. Creaturely Agency: Clarifying Kierkegaard’s Notion of Contentment, Dante J. Clementi (University of Saint Andrews, UK)13. The Unconditioned Obedience of the Lily and Bird, Sergia Hay (Pacific Lutheran University, USA)14. Kierkegaard's Charitable Misanthropy, Ulrika Carlsson (Independent Scholar, USA)Part V: The Imperative15. The Inversion of Human Exceptionalism: Kierkegaard’s Imago Dei Read Ecologically, Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal (University of Cambridge, UK)16. On Becoming a Humus Being, Jason A. Mahn (Augustana College, USA)17. Taking Care: Of Kierkegaard’s Incomparable Lily Discourses, Kevin Newmark (Boston College, USA)Index

This is a deeply peaceful book, inviting us to contemplate the lilies and the birds with Kierkegaard. The reader experiences the constancy and quiet joy of these beings through essays that range across Kierkegaard’s writings.

Frances Maughan-Brown is Lecturer in Philosophy and the First Year Program at the College of the Holy Cross, USA.Rick Anthony Furtak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College, USA.

• Preface, Frances Maughan-Brown (College of the Holy Cross, USA) and Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College, USA)Part I: The Lily and the Bird1. The Remains: Let it be Lily, Frances Maughan-Brown (College of the Holy Cross, USA)2. Considering the Birds of the Air: Winged Creatures of Uncertainty and Belief, Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College, USA)Part II: On Reading3. On Beginning and Listening in Kierkegaard’s The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air, Iben Damgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)4. The Temptation of Ambiguity, Elizabeth X. Li (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)5. Prudence and Openness in Kierkegaard’s Lilies and Birds, Erin Plunkett (University of Hertfordshire, UK)6. The Music of the Poet and the Sounds of the Lily and the Bird, Elisabete M. de Sousa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)Part III: Either/Or Again7. Repeating Either/Or?, George Pattison (University of Glasgow, UK)8. From “the Starry Heavens Above” to “the Lily of the Field”, Marcia Robinson (Syracuse University, USA) 9. Taming the Troll: Kierkegaard on Self-Torment, Aestheticism, and Faith, Genia Schönbaumsfeld (University of Southampton, UK)10. Kierkegaard on Natural and Artistic Beauty, Antony Aumann (University of Northern Michigan, USA)Part IV: Between Two Virtues 11. Contentment and Discontentment with Being Human, Adam Buben (Leiden University, the Netherlands)12. Creaturely Agency: Clarifying Kierkegaard’s Notion of Contentment, Dante J. Clementi (University of Saint Andrews, UK)13. The Unconditioned Obedience of the Lily and Bird, Sergia Hay (Pacific Lutheran University, USA)14. Kierkegaard's Charitable Misanthropy, Ulrika Carlsson (Independent Scholar, USA)Part V: The Imperative15. The Inversion of Human Exceptionalism: Kierkegaard’s Imago Dei Read Ecologically, Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal (University of Cambridge, UK)16. On Becoming a Humus Being, Jason A. Mahn (Augustana College, USA)17. Taking Care: Of Kierkegaard’s Incomparable Lily Discourses, Kevin Newmark (Boston College, USA)Index

This is a deeply peaceful book, inviting us to contemplate the lilies and the birds with Kierkegaard. The reader experiences the constancy and quiet joy of these beings through essays that range across Kierkegaard’s writings.

Frances Maughan-Brown is Lecturer in Philosophy and the First Year Program at the College of the Holy Cross, USA.Rick Anthony Furtak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College, USA.

• Preface, Frances Maughan-Brown (College of the Holy Cross, USA) and Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College, USA)Part I: The Lily and the Bird1. The Remains: Let it be Lily, Frances Maughan-Brown (College of the Holy Cross, USA)2. Considering the Birds of the Air: Winged Creatures of Uncertainty and Belief, Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College, USA)Part II: On Reading3. On Beginning and Listening in Kierkegaard’s The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air, Iben Damgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)4. The Temptation of Ambiguity, Elizabeth X. Li (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)5. Prudence and Openness in Kierkegaard’s Lilies and Birds, Erin Plunkett (University of Hertfordshire, UK)6. The Music of the Poet and the Sounds of the Lily and the Bird, Elisabete M. de Sousa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)Part III: Either/Or Again7. Repeating Either/Or?, George Pattison (University of Glasgow, UK)8. From “the Starry Heavens Above” to “the Lily of the Field”, Marcia Robinson (Syracuse University, USA) 9. Taming the Troll: Kierkegaard on Self-Torment, Aestheticism, and Faith, Genia Schönbaumsfeld (University of Southampton, UK)10. Kierkegaard on Natural and Artistic Beauty, Antony Aumann (University of Northern Michigan, USA)Part IV: Between Two Virtues 11. Contentment and Discontentment with Being Human, Adam Buben (Leiden University, the Netherlands)12. Creaturely Agency: Clarifying Kierkegaard’s Notion of Contentment, Dante J. Clementi (University of Saint Andrews, UK)13. The Unconditioned Obedience of the Lily and Bird, Sergia Hay (Pacific Lutheran University, USA)14. Kierkegaard's Charitable Misanthropy, Ulrika Carlsson (Independent Scholar, USA)Part V: The Imperative15. The Inversion of Human Exceptionalism: Kierkegaard’s Imago Dei Read Ecologically, Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal (University of Cambridge, UK)16. On Becoming a Humus Being, Jason A. Mahn (Augustana College, USA)17. Taking Care: Of Kierkegaard’s Incomparable Lily Discourses, Kevin Newmark (Boston College, USA)Index

This is a deeply peaceful book, inviting us to contemplate the lilies and the birds with Kierkegaard. The reader experiences the constancy and quiet joy of these beings through essays that range across Kierkegaard’s writings.