The volumes in this series are research tools designed to assist and encourage serious scholarly study of Kierkegaard and his works. Volume II concords 586 key words, plus 210 variants. It contains approximately 76,000 entries consisting of an appropriate text fragment of nine to twelve words of the Danish text followed by page and line references to both Danish editions and to the above three translations.
Kierkegaard left the task of discovering the meaning of his works to the reader, because "the task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted". Scholars have interpreted Kierkegaard variously as an existentialist, neo-orthodoxist, postmodernist, humanist, and individualist.
Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, he is an influential figure in contemporary thought.... Show more