This introduction to the writings of Sren <strong>Kierkegaard</strong> is for anyone who hasfelt daunted by the prospect of reading and understanding the work o... » 

This introduction to the writings of Sren Kierkegaard is for anyone who hasfelt daunted by the prospect of reading and understanding the work of one ofthe most important yet elusive 19th century thinkers. Kierkegaard scholar M.Jamie Ferreira sets out to make the Danish philosophers work accessible with aunique and innovative how to approach guiding readers through his works andshowing how he thought rather than simply what he thought. Kierkegaard is thefirst detailed introduction to his entire body of work illustrating howliterary philosophical theological and psychological influences coincide inboth the religious and pseudonymous philosophical works. Ferreira highlightsthe literary strategies Kierkegaard employed to awaken and challenge the readerand observes that the two very different arcs of his writing are neverthelessinexorably intertwined rather than merely parallel exerting a dramatic anddynamic influence on one other. The result is an extraordinary text suitablefor accompanying the new reader of the primary works but with many things tooffer those returning to them. «