"There is a natural affinity between Kierkegaard’s uniquely intense, subjec-tively-involved metaphysical realism and the French spiritualist tradition which eschews both idealism and reductive empiricism. This book brings out that affinity and displays it in all the variety of its manifestations, both religious and secular, both speculative and existentialist. An indispensable and monumental entry for scholars and intriguing read for a wider audience." - Catherine Pickstock, Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge"For close on a century, Kierkegaard has been a significant presence in French intellectual life, yet the French reception of Kierkegaard has from the beginning been highly idiosyncratic and has produced relatively few of the large thematic monographs such as the German and Anglophone traditions have copiously produced. Nevertheless, as this outstanding collection shows, Kierkegaard’s French readers have produced a series of brilliant insights that extend and challenge the interpretation of his work, often thinking ‘with’ Kierkegaard as much as ‘about’ him. The contributions are uniformly schol-arly, lucid, and original, expanding our understanding of the issues at play in Kierkegaard’s work in the prism of French philosophy’s greatest thinkers, from the 1930s to the present day. This is a state-of-the-art volume that will also provide a valuable resource for students at all levels for many years to come." - George Pattison, University of Glasgow