Kierkegaard: The Self in Society

MARTIN ANDIC Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston ANITA CRAIG Research Fellow, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) MARK DOOLEY Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University College, Dublin PETER GEORGE held a Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Kierkegaard Research Centre BRUCE KIRMMSE is a historian of ideas who teaches in Connecticut College and at Copenhagen University ANDRAS NAGY is a novelist and playwright ROBERT L. PERKINS Chair of Philosophy, Stetson University (Florida) JAMES W. PERKINSON is a PhD candidate in Theology, University of Chicago, and Adjunct Professor in Religious Studies, Marygrove College, Detroit M.G. PIETY Lecturer, Denmark's International Study Program HUGH PYPER teaches Biblical Studies, University of Leeds ANTHONY RUDD teaches Philosophy, University of Bristol.

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Editors' Introduction The Place of the World in Kierkegaard's Ethics; M.G.Piety Climacan Politics: Polis and Person in Kierkegaard's Postscript; Robert L.Perkins The Possibilities for Personhood in a Context of (Hitherto Unknown) Possibilities; Anita Craig Something Anti-Social About Works of Love; Peter George Kierkegaard's Critique of Pure Irony; Anthony Rudd Books About Nothing? Kierkegaard's Liberating Rhetoric; Steven Shakespeare Is Love of Neighbour the Love of an Individual?; Martin Andic Cities of the Dead: the Relation of Person and Polis in Kierkegaard's Works of Love; Hugh Pyper Repetition and Justice: A Derridean/Kierkegaardian Reading of the Subject; Mark Dooley A 'Socio-reading' of the Kierkegaardian Self: or, the Space of Lowliness in the Time of the Disciple; Jim Perkinson 'But I am Almost Never Understood...' or, Who Killed Soren Kierkegaard?; Bruce Kirmmse Abraham the Communist; Andras Nagy Index

'The essays themselves reveal the rich possibilities (and a few difficulties) of the Kierkegaarian corpus.' - Paul Martens, Religious Studies Review