Jon Stewart is Associate Professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, at the University of Copenhagen. He is the editor of the series Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Texts from Golden Age Denmark and Danish Golden Age Studies. He is the coeditor of the Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook and Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series. His works include The Unity of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Systematic Interpretation (2000), Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered (2003), A History of Hegelianism in Golden Age Denmark, Tomes I-II (2007), Idealism and Existentialism: Hegel and Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Philosophy (2010), and The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing: The Perils of Conformity (2013).

• Preface ; List of Figures ; Introduction ; 1. The Life and Work of Kierkegaard as a "Socratic Task" ; 2. Hegel's View of Socrates ; 3. Kierkegaard's View of Socrates ; 4. Kierkegaard, Heiberg, and History ; 5. Kierkegaard and Romantic Subjectivism ; 6. The Conception of Kierkegaard's Socratic Task and the Beginning of the Authorship: 1843 ; 7. Kierkegaard's Socratic Task and the Development of Pseudonymous Works: 1844-46 ; 8. Kierkegaard's Socratic Task and the Second Half of the Authorship: 1846-55 ; Bibliography ; Index

As the plot of this text unfolds it becomes a play within a play, an occasion for reflection; with clearer vision the reader discovers herself at center stage, having become-one can only hope-an actress in crisis.

Jon Stewart is Associate Professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, at the University of Copenhagen. He is the editor of the series Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Texts from Golden Age Denmark and Danish Golden Age Studies. He is the coeditor of the Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook and Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series. His works include The Unity of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Systematic Interpretation (2000), Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered (2003), A History of Hegelianism in Golden Age Denmark, Tomes I-II (2007), Idealism and Existentialism: Hegel and Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Philosophy (2010), and The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing: The Perils of Conformity (2013).

• Preface ; List of Figures ; Introduction ; 1. The Life and Work of Kierkegaard as a "Socratic Task" ; 2. Hegel's View of Socrates ; 3. Kierkegaard's View of Socrates ; 4. Kierkegaard, Heiberg, and History ; 5. Kierkegaard and Romantic Subjectivism ; 6. The Conception of Kierkegaard's Socratic Task and the Beginning of the Authorship: 1843 ; 7. Kierkegaard's Socratic Task and the Development of Pseudonymous Works: 1844-46 ; 8. Kierkegaard's Socratic Task and the Second Half of the Authorship: 1846-55 ; Bibliography ; Index

As the plot of this text unfolds it becomes a play within a play, an occasion for reflection; with clearer vision the reader discovers herself at center stage, having become-one can only hope-an actress in crisis.

Jon Stewart is Associate Professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, at the University of Copenhagen. He is the editor of the series Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Texts from Golden Age Denmark and Danish Golden Age Studies. He is the coeditor of the Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook and Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series. His works include The Unity of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Systematic Interpretation (2000), Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered (2003), A History of Hegelianism in Golden Age Denmark, Tomes I-II (2007), Idealism and Existentialism: Hegel and Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Philosophy (2010), and The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing: The Perils of Conformity (2013).

• Preface ; List of Figures ; Introduction ; 1. The Life and Work of Kierkegaard as a "Socratic Task" ; 2. Hegel's View of Socrates ; 3. Kierkegaard's View of Socrates ; 4. Kierkegaard, Heiberg, and History ; 5. Kierkegaard and Romantic Subjectivism ; 6. The Conception of Kierkegaard's Socratic Task and the Beginning of the Authorship: 1843 ; 7. Kierkegaard's Socratic Task and the Development of Pseudonymous Works: 1844-46 ; 8. Kierkegaard's Socratic Task and the Second Half of the Authorship: 1846-55 ; Bibliography ; Index

As the plot of this text unfolds it becomes a play within a play, an occasion for reflection; with clearer vision the reader discovers herself at center stage, having become-one can only hope-an actress in crisis.