Jon Stewart is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He is the editor of the Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Texts from Golden Age Denmark and Danish Golden Age Studies series. He is the co-editor of the Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook and the Kierkegaard Studies Monograph series. His publications include A Companion to Kierkegaard (2015), Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered (2003), The Unity of Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit': A Systematic Interpretation (2011), and The Cultural Crisis of the Danish Golden Age: Heiberg, Martensen and Kierkegaard (2015).

• 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 Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He is the editor of the Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Texts from Golden Age Denmark and Danish Golden Age Studies series. He is the co-editor of the Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook and the Kierkegaard Studies Monograph series. His publications include A Companion to Kierkegaard (2015), Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered (2003), The Unity of Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit': A Systematic Interpretation (2011), and The Cultural Crisis of the Danish Golden Age: Heiberg, Martensen and Kierkegaard (2015).

• 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 Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He is the editor of the Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Texts from Golden Age Denmark and Danish Golden Age Studies series. He is the co-editor of the Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook and the Kierkegaard Studies Monograph series. His publications include A Companion to Kierkegaard (2015), Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered (2003), The Unity of Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit': A Systematic Interpretation (2011), and The Cultural Crisis of the Danish Golden Age: Heiberg, Martensen and Kierkegaard (2015).

• 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.