Although the ideas of Soren Kierkegaard played a pivotal role in the shaping of mainstream German philosophy and the
history of French existentialism, the question of how philosophers should read Kierkegaard is a difficult one to settle. His intransigent religiosity has led some philosophers to view him as essentially a religious thinker of a singularly
anti-philosophical attitude who should be left to the theologians.
In this major new survey of Kierkegaard's thought, George Pattison addresses this question head on. The challenge of self- knowledge in an age of moral and intellectual uncertainty that lies at the heart of Kierkegaard's writings remains as important today as it did in the culture of post-Enlightenment modernity.
