Table of Contents

The life and times of Soren Kierkegaard; how to read Kierkegaard - irony, parable and other indirect communication; objective and subjective truth and faith; the key themes of Kierkegaard's classic work "Fear and Trembling"; Kierkegaard's attack on Hegel's systematic philosophy; Kierkegaard's attack on "Counterfeit Christianity"; the concept of anxiety; despair - the fatal sickness; the three spheres of human existence (aesthetic/ethical/religious); death.