Further Reading
- Beabout, Gregory R., Freedom and Its Misuses: Kierkegaard on Anxiety and Despair. Milwaukee, Wisc.: Marquette University Press, 1996, 192 p. (In seven chapters, discusses Kierkegaard's views on anxiety, despair, and freedom, based on a reading of Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety and Sickness unto Death.)
- Bové, Paul A., "The Penitentiary of Reflection: Søren Kierkegaard and Critical Activity," in Kierkegaard and Literature: Irony, Repetition, and Criticism, edited by Ronald Schleifer and Robert Markley, pp. 25-57. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984. (Examines how Kierkegaard is regarded by literary scholars as a literary critic, reviews Two Ages, and argues that critical activity must examine its own origins, assumptions, and effects.)
- Connell, George B. and C. Stephen Evans, eds., Foundations of Kierkegaard's Vision of Community: Religion, Ethics, and Politics in Kierkegaard. New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1992, 245 p. (Collection of essays focusing on Kierkegaard's views on faith and religion, the ethical life, subjectivity, the individual's role in society, and political and feminist issues.)
- Fenves, Peter, "Chatter": Language and History in Kierkegaard. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993, 312 p. (Analyzes Kierkegaard's attitude toward the function of speech as well as written language.)
- Gellman, Jerome I., "The Fear and the Trembling," in The Fear, the Trembling, and the Fire: Kierkegaard and Hasidic Masters on the Binding of Isaac, pp. 1-21. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1994. (Maintains that the standard reading of Kierkegaard's account of the biblical Abraham story "is not the best reading" and offers another interpretation focusing on Abraham's choice to define himself.)
- Kirmmse, Bruce H., ed., Encounters with Kierkegaard: A Life as Seen by His Contemporaries, collected, edited, and annotated by Bruce H. Kirmmse and translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse and Virginia R. Laursen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996, 358 p. (A collection of anecdotes and letters by contemporaries of Kierkegaard, discussing his reputation, works, and personality.)
- Mackey, Louis, "Starting from Scratch: Kierkegaard Unfair to Hegel," in Points of View: Readings of Kierkegaard, pp. 1-22. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1986. (Focuses on Kierkegaard's master's thesis, On the Concept of Irony, and discusses the ways in which Kierkegaard employed irony to attack Hegel.)
- Mooney, Edward F., Selves in Discord and Resolve: Kierkegaard's Moral-Religious Psychology from Either/Or to Sickness unto Death. New York: Routledge, 1996, 140 p. (Examines the relationship between poetry and philosophy in Kierkegaard; the concepts of self-acquisition and responsibility; Kierkegaard's discussions of Job and Abraham; and Kierkegaard's views on subjectivity and the "relational" self.)
- Pattison, George, ed., Kierkegaard on Art and Communication. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992, 189 p. (Collection of essays exploring the form and content of Kierkegaard's works as a poet, philosopher, and theologian.)
- Perkins, Robert L., International Kierkegaard Commentary: Two Ages. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1984, 265 p. (Collection of essays designed to destroy the myth that "Kierkegaard presents his concept of the individual in a social and political vacuum.")
- Walsh, Sylvia I., "Forming the Heart: The Role of Love in Kierkegaard's Thought," in The Grammar of the Heart: New Essays in Moral Philosophy and Theology, edited by Richard H. Bell, pp. 234-56. San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988. (Studies the "role of love in forming the heart" as Kierkegaard discusses in the Christian discourses found in Works of Love.)
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