Table of Contents

Introduction
Merold Westphal and Martin J. Matustik Sigla

1. THe Kierkegaard-Effect in the Shaping of the Contours of Modernity
Calvin O. Schrag

2. Sartre's Debts to Kierkegaard: A Partial Reckoning
William L. McBride

3. Heidegger's Reading of Kierkegaard Revisited: From Ontological Abstraction to Ethical Concretion
Patricia J. Huntington

4. God, Anxiety, and Female Divinity
Alison Leigh Brown

5. Kierkegaard's View of the Unconscious
C. Stephen Evans

6. Amatory Cures for Material Dis-ease: A Kristevian Reading of The Sickness unto Death
Tamsin Lorraine

7. Kierkegaard and Feminism: Apologetic, Repetition, and Dialogue
Wanda Warren Berry

8. Paradoxes in Interpretation: Kierkegaard and Gadamer
Stephen N. Dunning

9. Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and a Method of "Virtue Ethics"
Robert C. Roberts

10. The Politics of Existence: Buber and Kiergaard
Robert L. Perkins

11. Communicative Freedom and Negative Theology
Jurgen Habermas
Translated with Notes by Martin J. Matustik and Patricia J. Huntington

12. Kierkegaard and Critical Theory
James L. Marsh

13. Instants, Secrets, and Singularities: Dealing Death in Kierkegaard and Derrida
John D. Cputo

14. Kierkegaard's Radical Existential Praxis, or: Why the Individual Defies Liberal, Communitarian, and Postmodern Categories
Martin J. Matustik

15. The Transparent Shadow: Kierkegaard and Levina in Dialogue
Merole Westphal

Works Cited
Contributors
Index

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Engages Kierkegaard in conversation with critical social theory and postmodern thought.

About the Author

MARTIN J. MATUSTIK is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University and author of Postnational Identity: Critical Theory and Existential Philosophy in Habermas, Kierkegaard, and Havel.

MEROLD WESTPHAS is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. His books include God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion, and Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism.