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New On Søren Kierkegaard: Dialogue, Polemics, Lost Intimacy, and Time, by Edward F. Mooney, Ashgate, 2007, 266pp., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN 0754658228.
Reviewed by Alastair Hannay, University of Oslo

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New and Notable
From fairy stories to philosophy by Jonathan Rée

Online Books
Online Kierkegaard Books from Religion-Online
Kierkegaard & the Existential Philosophy: Vox clamantis in deserto by Lev Shestov
"Person and Liberty I The Kierkegaardian Protest" (Meditation on the Singular) by Jacques Maritain (from ''Moral Philosophy'')
Kierkegaard and Radical Discipleship: A New Perspective by Vernard Eller
Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard: Religion, Individuality and Philosophical Method by Charles L. Creegan
Kierkegaard's Concept of Despair (sample chapter) by Michael Theunissen, Translated by Barbara Harshav and Helmut Illbruck

Introductory
Biographical
SØREN KIERKEGAARD - Life and Work by F.J. Billeskov Jansen
About Søren Kierkegaard: Biography and Significance by Gordon Marino
SOREN KIERKEGAARD (1813-1855) BIOGRAPHY
Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography by Joakim Garff, Translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse

Commentary
A Commentary on Kierkegaard's Writings By D. Anthony Storm
Soren Kierkegaard
The Oddest Prophet
Søren Kierkegaard (excerpt) by Malcolm Muggeridge

Sören Kierkegaard and Existentialism by Gerhard Rempel
The Existential Primer: Soren Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) By William McDonald
Kierkegaard (Dictionary of Modern Western Theology) By Trevor S. Maloney, Jason Donnelly, Robert Smid, Imkong I. Imsong
Kierkegaard (The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism) By Peter Fenves
Sören Kierkegaard (1813-1855): A Little Introduction By © 2002 K. D. Kragen
Sören Kierkegaard and Existentialism By Gerhard Rempel
Is Existentialism Making a Come Back?

Scholarly
(Requires more than introductory knowledge)

Hermeneutics
Being Something on Hermeneutics and Communication in Kierkegaard After All by Alastair Hannay

Communication Theory
On Indirection by Samuel McCormick

Religion
Doxology as Suspension of the Tragic By Joseph C. McLelland
Kierkegaard on ‘Upbuilding’, Grace and “the God Whom [Sic] Gives Every Good and Perfect Gift"
by © Brian Lightbody
Radical Theology and the Death of God by Thomas Altizer and William Hamilton
Hegel, Kierkegaard, and the Structure of a Spirit-full Self By © Jack E. Marsh Jr.
Kierkegaard the Apophatic Theologian By David Kangas
Kierkegaard's «Silent» Voice By Sergia Hay
Kierkegaard: Copernicus of the Spirit By Charles K. Bellinger
Matters Eternal by Don Cupitt
The Unfashionable Kierkegaard By Peter F. Drucker, 1933
Kierkegaard vs. Nietzsche: Discerning the Nature of True Christian Faith By Ellie Bostwick
Kant and Kierkegaard on Faith: In Service to Morality and a Leap for the Absurd By Marc Williams
Kierkegaard and P.M. Moller on Immortality By Tamara-monet Marks

Bible
Can Kierkegaard Help Us Understand The Role Of The Law In Rom 7:7-12? Tools For A Kierkegaardian Reading Of Paul by Valérie Nicolet Anderson
Response to Valérie Nicolet Anderson by Cristina Grenholm
Kierkegaard's Either/Or and the Parable of the Prodigal Son: Or, Three Rival Versions of Three Rival Versions by Charles K. Bellinger
The Voice of God and the Face of the Other by Claire Elise Katz
SACRIFICING THE TEXT: THE PHILOSOPHER/POET AT MOUNT MORIAH by © Dorota Glowacka
Kierkegaard: The Mirror of the Word by Kyle Roberts
Kierkegaard, Poet of the Word by JOHN GEORGE KUETHE

Philosophy
Kierkegaard and Philosophy: Background
Via Online Philosophy Papers: Fichte's Role in Kierkegaard's Construction of the Ethical Standpoint by Michelle Kosch
Russian, Stalinist and Soviet re-readings of Kierkegaard: Lev Shestov and Piama Gaidenko by Anna Makolkin
Kierkegaard’s Socratic Point of View by Paul Muench
Christian Thought Sown in a Greek Field by Eric Verhine
Dialogical Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Buber By Shmuel Hugo Bergman
From Thinking to Religion: The Opening of Ideality in 19th Century Protestant Thought by Jeffrey W. Robbins
Skepticism and the Eurocentric Tradition: a polemical essay by Edward Jayne
THE ERROR OF ABRAHAM: The Aqedah Myth and Nietzschean Historical Model By Craig Jones
Suspensions in Kierkegaard and Husserl By Michael R. Michau
Willed Faith and Belief: an essay on Kierkegaard By CHRISTINE JEWELL
Adorno’s Reception of Kierkegaard: 1929-1933 by Marcia Morgan
LEV SHESTOV AND KIERKEGAARD By N. A. BERDYAEV (BERDIAEV)
Russian, Stalinist and Soviet re-readings of Kierkegaard: Lev Shestov and Piama Gaidenko by Anna Makolkin

Philosophy of Religion
Is Kierkegaard's Absolute Paradox Hume's Miracle? by Jyrki Kivelä
KIERKEGAARD’S ILLUSION OF CHRISTENDOM AND ATTACK ON CHRISTENDOM: An `inner process’ stands in need of outward criteria by J. L. Craft
Kierkegaard on Miracles: Introductory Observations by Jyrki Kivelä
Reason, Virtue, and the Paradox by Eleanor Helms
Hannah Arendt on Kierkegaard By Harold P. Sjursen
Kierkegaard and the Uncanny: A Cast of Sinners and Automatons By Vanessa Rumble

Kierkegaard and Subjectivity
SUBJECTIVITY IN KIERKEGAARD: A REASSESSMENT by Steve W. Lemke
Comments on Kierkegaard's "Eternal Happiness, Subjectivity, and Truth" by Dr. Scott H. Moore
On Truth As Subjectivity In Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript by © Daniel B. Johnson Jr.

Kierkegaard and Kant
KANT AND KIERKEGAARD: THE SUBJECTIVIZATION OF FAITH by © Antoinette M. Stafford
DIALECTIC AND EXISTENCE IN KIERKEGAARD AND KANT by Nythamar Fernandes de Oliveira

Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein
Remnants of Abraham: the Messenger and the Silence by Aviva Shemesh
The Point outside the world: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Nonsense, Paradox and Religion by Jamie M. Ferreira
Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard and the Unspeakable by Joseph C Mohrfeld
MAKING SENSE OF NONSENSE: KIERKEGAARD AND WITTGENSTEIN by John Lippitt and Daniel D. Hutto

Socio-Political
GIVING UP THE GOOD: ADORNO, KIERKEGAARD, AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL CULTUREby MATT WAGGONER
Infinitely Interesting: Bloom, Kierkegaard, and the Educational Quest by Patricia Rohrer
Impoverished Mitsein: Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Public Relations by Jack E. Marsh, Jr.
"THE CROWD IS UNTRUTH": A COMPARISON OF KIERKEGAARD AND GIRARD by Charles K. Bellinger
Subjectivity and Resistance to Capitalist Legitimization
Kierkegaard, Religion, and the Nineteenth Century Crisis of Culture by George Pattison (sample chapter from his book of the same name)
Kierkegaard’s media critic in the age of reflection By EGUCHI Satoshi Kyoto Women’s University, Japan
Mark Dooley, The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility reviewed by George Pattison
"THE CROWD IS UNTRUTH": A COMPARISON OF KIERKEGAARD AND GIRARD By Charles K. Bellinger
Toward a Kierkegaardian Understanding of Hitler, Stalin, and the Cold War By Charles K. Bellinger
Theories on the Psychology of Violence: An Address to the Association of Muslim Social Scientists by Charles K. Bellinger
Theories Yoder’s Christ and Girard’s Culture: With Reference to Kierkegaard’s Transformation of the Self by Charles K. Bellinger
A Brief History of Radical Theology
Earnestness or Estheticism: Post 9/11 Reflections on Kierkegaard’s Two Views of Death by W. Glenn Kirkconnell
The Politics of Statehood vs. A Politics of Exodus: A Critique of Levinas’s Reading of Kierkegaard by Mark Dooley
Smart Bombs, Serial Killing, and the Rapture: The Vanishing Bodies of Imperial Apocalypticism by Peter Yoonsuk Paik
Mood and the Possibility of Appropriation of Kierkegaard in Academia by Amanda Bartley
Nietzsche as Founder of Irrationalism in the Imperialist Period from The Destruction of Reason, by Georg Lukács 1952
Spiritual Psychology
Kierkegaard the Pathologist By Alastair Hannay
Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on the Inner Life By John T. Bengson
Lacan, Kierkegaard, and RepetitionBy © Marcus Pound

Aesthetics
Of Which We May Speak: Meditations on Irony, Eccentricity, and Faith by Thomas F. Bertonneau
Kierkegaard’s amphibolous conjunction of joy and sorrow and his literary theory by Alberto Carrillo Canán
Spirit and the end of art by Norman Lillegard
Idiocy, Foolishness, and Spastic Jesting by Bodil Marie Thomsen
Søren Kierkegaard’s Interpretation of Mozart’s Opera Don Giovanni: An Appraisal and Theological Response by Dr. David Naugle
Between Ultra-Essentialism and Post-Essentialism: Kierkegaard as Transitional and Contemporary by Richard Colledge
Kierkegaard's Repetition as a Comedy in Two Acts by Stuart Dalton
The text as 'seduction' by Kierkegaard by Kinya MASUGATA
“Seeing” is Believing: Narrative Visualization in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling by Daniel W. Conway
Understanding Human Nature: Examples from Philosophy and the Arts By María G. Amilburu
Kierkegaard the Poet By Sylvia Walsh
ANTONIN ARTAUD: NOAH’S ARK OUTSIDE TIME by S. Giora Shoham
A Theological And Aesthetic View Of Theatre by Asher Radunsky
“Smashing the Whole to Smithereens”: Ibsen’s Seismic Landscape by Amy Strahler Holzapfel
Kierkegaard at Babette’s Feast: The Return to the Finite by Jean Schuler
Glamour and Frightful Mutilation: Kondoleon, Kierkegaard and Campby Robert F. Gross
Repetition: Kierkegaard, Artaud, Pollock and the theatre of the image by SAMUEL WEBER with TERRY SMITH
The Virtual Reality of Theater by Samuel Weber
Limits of Irony: Freedom and Responsibility in Culture by Agata Bielik-Robson
Preface to The Theory of the Novelby Georg Lukács 1962
Redintegratio In Statum Pristinum (1) (An Analysis of Kierkegaard's Concept of Repetition) by Catalina Elena Dobre

Feminism
Kierkegaard and Feminism: A Paradoxical Friendship by Dera Sipe
Kierkegaard's Relations with Postmodernism and Feminism by Charles Creegan

Ethics
Commanded Love and Moral Autonomy: The Kierkegaard-Habermas Debate By Merold Westphal
Kierkegaard and the Lover By M. Jamie Ferreira
sin, despair, and the other: The Works of Soren Kierkegaard By Scott O’Leary
Was Abraham Ethical? Should We Admire His Willingness to Sacrifice His Son? By Carol Delaney
The Role of Love in the Thought of Kant and Kierkegaard By Daryl J. Wennemann
‘Despair’ in Kierkegaard’s Either/Or1 By Michelle Kosch
"Levinas and Kierkegaard: Judaism, Christianity, and an Ethics of Witnessing By Michael R. Michau
Burkean Dialectic as the Praxis of Paradoxical Love-as-Ethic By Michael R. Michau
In Parables: Teaching Through Parables By John J. Bonsignore
Kierkegaard: Eithers and Ors By Charles Creegan
Words of Love By Charles Creegan
"History of the Notion of Care" by Warren Thomas Reich
Grounded in Another or Self-Constituted? Reflections on the Self in Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Edward Farley by Mark Emery Reynolds
LOVE IN KIERKEGAARD'S SYMPOSIA by William McDonald

Kierkegaard and Science
If Men Are From Mars, What's God By Adam Kirsch
Inter-Religious Dialog
Echoes of Kierkegaard and Locke By Ahmad Sadri
Kierkegaard's Stages Toward Authentic Religious Experience And The Bodhisattva Path To Enlightenment By © Dan Johnson
Kierkegaard and Iqbal: Startling Resemblances in Life and Thought By Ghulam Sabir
Ibn-e ‘Arabi and Kierkegaard (A Study in Method and Reasoning) By Muhammad Hasan Askari
The Predicament of Man in Zen Buddhism and Kierkegaard By Nolan Pliny Jacobson
Christianity and Buddhism Thoughts on the Possibility of a Dialogue By ODAGAKI Masaya
Overcoming the Oversoul: Emerson’s Evolutionary Existentialism by Harold Fromm
Irony, Humor, Free Speech, Cartoons, and Religion by Charles D. Miller
What Would Kierkegaard Do? By CARLIN ROMANO

Podcasts
Dreyfus on Existentialism (Includes Lectures on Kierkegaard)

[W]reckonings With Kierkegaard
The Originality of Levinas: Pre-Originally Categorizing the Ego by D.G. Leahy
Repeating Lenin by Slavoj Zizek
Kierkegaard's Epilepsy" "The Intriguing Secret of the Machinery by Heidi Hansen and Leif Bork Hansen

Lectures
From fairy stories to philosophy by Jonathan Rée
Newman and Kierkegaard A series of lectures by Ralph McInerny
SØREN KIERKEGAARD: A DANISH PHILOSOPHER OF WORLD RENOWN A Website course
The Existing Individual vs. the System by G. J. Mattey
Kierkegaard on God by G. J. Mattey
Kierkegaard and Angst by G. J. Mattey
FEAR AND TREMBLING Comments and notes by Bob Corbett

Reviews
Living Christianly: Kierkegaard's Dialectic of Christian Existence, by Sylvia Walsh Reviewed by Steven Shakespeare
Encounters with Kierkegaard: A life Seen by His Contemporaries By Gordon Marino
Kierkegaard for Grownups By Richard John Neuhaus
"Kierkegaard's Upbuilding Discourses: Philosophy, theology, literature," by George Pattison Reviewed by M. Jamie Ferreira
Edifying discourse: Gordon Marino on Soren Kierkegaard ArtForum, Summer, 2005 by Gordon Marino Reviews Garff biography and the reissue of Training in Christianity
Who's Soren Now? by M. G. Piety -- Is new Kierkegaard biography filled with historical errors and partially plagiarized?
Written Images: Søren Kierkegaard’s Journals, Notebooks, Booklets, Sheets, Scraps, and Slips of Paper, by Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Joakim Garff, and Johnny Kondrup. Translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse. Reviewed by Steven Schroeder
That Single Individual: 'Truth is subjectivity,' wrote Kierkegaard. So how do you tell the 'real' story of his life? by Richard Polt
Kierkegaard's tortured faith: The 19-century philosopher insisted truth involves sufferingBy Heller McAlpin
The Laughter of the PhilosophersBy David B. Hart; review of The Humor of Kierkegaard, by Thomas C. Oden
"Religion and Rationality: Essays on Reason, God, and Modernity," by Jürgen Habermas by Marilyn Holly

Interviews
TOWARDS AN EXISTENTIAL POLITICS A Conversation with Martin Matustik
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) advocated by Jonathan Rée (From the Greatest Philosopher Contest)
Fear and Freedom Transcript of Radio Interview with Pattison, Garff, McDonald, L. Miller, Marino, et al. Sunday 23 October 2005
Radio Series on Kierkegaard Part 1
Radio Series on Kierkegaard Part 2
Radio Series on Kierkegaard Part 3
Radio Series on Kierkegaard Part 4

Bibliographies
Søren Kierkegaard - Criticism
Other Online Resources
KIERKEGAARD RESOURCES WORLD WIDE
Kierkegaard Newsletter
The Søren Kierkegaard Society (U.S.A.)
Enrahonar: quaderns de filosofia Issue devoted entirely to Kierkegaard

Popular Culture
Shopper’s Despair by Daniel Leavitt

Films: Fiction and Non-Fiction
Deicide and The Passion By Jeff Snyder
Idiocy, Foolishness, and Spastic Jesting by Bodil Marie Thomsen
Søren Kierkegaard Funded by the Danish Government
"A daring, artistically uncompromising film about one of the greatest European philosophers, employing the oral tradition as a gateway into the world of Søren Kierkegaard. The film was shot at a Danish (folkehøjskole), where we meet a group of students as they intently follow their lectures and the ensuing debates."
Shadows and Fog: Stages on Woody's Way by Timothy Holland

Kierkegaard-Inspired Blog Postings
Augustus Young presents A Gloss on Soren Kierkegaard posted at Augustus Young: Poetry and Prose a regular webzine.
Remnants of Abraham: the Messenger and the Silence: The First Letter
Remnants of Abraham: the Messenger and the Silence: The Third Letter

KSRK: Guilty?/Not Guility? (May 5. Midnight.)
KSRK: Guilty?/Not Guility? (early May)
KSRK: Guilty?/Not Guilty? (April 2 through April 5, Morning)
KSRK: Guilty?/Not Guilty? (March 5 through March 15)

Kierkegaard-Inspired Blogs
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|Online Books| Introductory| Hermeneutics|
Religion :: Bible |
Philosophy :: Kierkegaard and Philosophy: Background // Philosophy of Religion // Subjectivity // Kierkegaard and Kant // Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein |
Socio-Political | Spiritual Psychology | Aesthetics | Femininism | Ethics | Inter-Religious Dialog | [W]reckonings With Kierkegaard | Biography | Lectures | Reviews | Interviews | Bibliography | Other Online Resources | Popular Culture | Film: Fiction and Non-Fiction |