A. Primary Literature: Works by Kierkegaard

A.1 Kierkegaard’s Works in Danish

The now definitive critical edition of Kierkegaard’s writings is:

• [SKS] Kierkegaard, Søren, Søren Kierkegaard’s Skrifter, N. J. Cappelørn et al. (eds), Copenhagen: Gad, 1997–2013, 55 volumes. Also available online at: http://www.sks.dk/ (Scholar)

A.2 Kierkegaard’s Works in English

The most used translations for most of Kierkegaard’s works is the Kierkegaard’s Writings series published by Princeton University Press under the general editorship of Howard V. and Edna. H. Hong. In citations above, we have followed the commonly used sigla of abbreviations of these titles, a more complete list of which is as follows. In some instances, we have cited alternative translations, which are listed here instead of the translations in the Kierkegaard’s Writings series.

Published works

• [BA] The Book on Adler, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 24), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

  Published posthumously.

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• [CA] The Concept of Anxiety, Reidar Thomte (ed. and trans.) in collaboration with Albert B. Anderson (Kierkegaard’s Writings 8), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980.
• [CD] Christian Discourses, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 17), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Published with The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress. (Scholar)
• [CI] The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 2), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.
• [COR] The Corsair Affair, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 13), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982
• [CUP] Concluding Unscientific Postscript to “Philosophical Fragments”, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.), 2 volumes (Kierkegaard’s Writings 12), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. (Scholar)
• [EO] Either/Or, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.), 2 volumes (Kierkegaard’s Writings 3–4), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987.
• [EPW] Early Polemical Writings, Julia Watkin (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 1), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
• [EUD] Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 5), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
• [FSE/JFY] For Self-Examination and Judge for Yourself! Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 21), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
• [FT] Fear and Trembling, C. Stephen Evans and Sylvia Walsh (eds), Sylvia Walsh (trans.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• [P] Prefaces and “Writing Sampler”, Todd W. Nichol (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 9), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. (Scholar)
• [PC] Practice in Christianity, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 20), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
• [PF/JC] Philosophical Fragments, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 7), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985. Published with Johannes Climacus or “De omnibus dubitandum est”. (Scholar)
• [PV] The Point of View: “On My Work as an Author”; “The Point of View for My Work as an Author”; “Armed Neutrality”, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 22), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. (Scholar)
• [R] Repetition, in Fear and Trembling; Repetition, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 6), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.
• [SLW] Stages on Life’s Way, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 11), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. (Scholar)
• [SUD] The Sickness Unto Death, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 19), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980.
• [TA] Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age. A Literary Review, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 14), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
• [TDIO] Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 10), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
• [TM] “The Moment” and Late Writings, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 23), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. (Scholar)
• [UDVS] Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 15), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
• [WA] Without Authority, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 18), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.
• [WL] Works of Love, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.) (Kierkegaard’s Writings 16), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Journals, Notebooks and Other Papers

• [KJN] Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, N. J. Cappelørn et al. (ed.), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007–2020.

  Multi-volume translation of all Kierkegaard’s journals, notebooks and miscellaneous papers, based on the relevant parts of SKS.

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Two older selections from Kierkegaard’s unpublished works are:

• [JP] Søren Kierkegaards Journals and Papers, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (ed. and trans.), Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1967–78, 7 volumes.
• [LD] Letters and Documents, Hendrik Rosenmeier (ed. and trans.), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.

A more manageable introduction to Kierkegaard’s journals and unpublished papers is:

• [PJ] Papers and Journals: A Selection, Alastair Hannay (trans. with introduction and notes), Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996.

B. Selected Secondary Literature and Other Works Referred To

We have here focused on books: articles are only referenced if referred to in the above text.

• Adorno, Theodor W., 1933 [1989], Kierkegaard: Konstruktion des ästhetischen, (Beiträge zur Philosophie und ihrer Geschichte 2), Tübingen: Mohr. Translated as Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic, Robert Hullot-Kentor (trans.), (Theory and History of Literature 61), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1989. (Scholar)
• –––, 1939 [2003], “On Kierkegaard’s Doctrine of Love”, Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, 8(3): 413–429. Reprinted in Conway 2003, Vol. II: 7–21. doi:10.5840/zfs19398377 (Scholar)
• Agacinski, Sylviane, 1977 [1988], Aparté : conceptions et morts de Sören Kierkegaard, (La philosophie en effet), Paris: Aubier. Translated as Aparté: Conceptions and Deaths of Søren Kierkegaard, Kevin Newmark (trans.), (Kierkegaard and Postmodernism), Gainesville, FL: University Presses of Florida, 1988. (Scholar)
• Backhouse, Stephen, 2011, Kierkegaard’s Critique of Christian Nationalism, (Oxford Theological Monographs), Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199604722.001.0001 (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, Kierkegaard: A Single Life, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. (Scholar)
• Barrett, Lee, 2013, “Kierkegaard as Theologian: A History of Countervailing Interpretations”, in Lippitt and Pattison 2013: 528–549 (ch. 27). (Scholar)
• Beabout, Gregory R., 1996, Freedom and its Misuses: Kierkegaard on Anxiety and Despair, Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press. (Scholar)
• Bernier, Mark, 2015, The Task of Hope in Kierkegaard, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198747888.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Binswanger, Ludwig, 1958, “The Case of Ellen West: An Anthropological-Clinical Study”, Werner M. Mendel and Joseph Lyons (trans.), in Existence: A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology, Rollo May, Ernest Angel, and Henri F. Ellenberger (eds), New York: Basic Books/Hachette Book Group, 237–364. doi:10.1037/11321-009 (Scholar)
• Buben, Adam, Eleanor Helms, and Patrick Stokes (eds), 2019, The Kierkegaardian Mind, London/New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429198571 (Scholar)
• Bukdahl, Jørgen, 1970 [2001], Søren Kierkegaard og den menige mand, Copenhagen: Gyldendal. Translated as Søren Kierkegaard and the Common Man, Bruce H. Kirmmse (trans.), Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 2001. (Scholar)
• Carlisle, Clare, 2005, Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Becoming: Movements and Positions, (SUNY Series in Theology and Continental Thought), Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling: A Reader’s Guide, London: Continuum. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “Kierkegaard and Heidegger”, in Lippitt and Pattison 2013: 421–439 (ch. 22). (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard, London: Allen Lane. (Scholar)
• Cavell, Stanley, 1969, “Kierkegaard’s On Authority and Revelation”, in his Must We Mean What We Say?, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, chapter 1. (Scholar)
• Compaijen, Rob, 2018, Kierkegaard, MacIntyre, Williams, and the Internal Point of View, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74552-7 (Scholar)
• Conant, James, 1989, “Must We Show What We Cannot Say”, in The Senses of Stanley Cavell, Richard Fleming and Michael Payne (eds), Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 242–283. (Scholar)
• –––, 1993, “Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein and Nonsense”, in Pursuits of Reason: Essays in Honor of Stanley Cavell, Ted Cohen, Paul Guyer, and Hilary Putnam (eds), (Philosophical Inquiries 2), Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 195–224. (Scholar)
• –––, 1995, “Putting Two and Two Together: Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein and the Point of View for Their Work as Authors”, in Philosophy and the Grammar of Religious Belief, Timothy Tessin and Mario von der Ruhr (eds), London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 248–331. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-23867-5_11 (Scholar)
• Conway, Daniel W. (ed.), 2003, Søren Kierkegaard: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, 4 vols., London/New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2015, Kierkegaard’s “Fear and Trembling”: A Critical Guide, (Cambridge Critical Guides), Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139540834 (Scholar)
• Davenport, John J., 2008, “Faith as Eschatological Trust in Fear and Trembling”, in Mooney 2008: 196–233 (ch. 15). (Scholar)
• ––– , 2012, Narrative Identity, Autonomy, and Mortality: From Frankfurt and MacIntyre to Kierkegaard, (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy 36), New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203125946 (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, “The Integration of Neighbor-Love and Special Loves in Kierkegaard and von Hildebrand”, in Minister, Simmons and Strawser 2017: 46–77 (ch. 4). (Scholar)
• Davenport, John and Anthony Rudd (eds), 2001, Kierkegaard After MacIntyre: Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and Virtue, Chicago: Open Court. (Scholar)
• Derrida, Jacques, 1992 [1995], “Donner la mort”, in L’Ethique du don: Jacques Derrida et la pensée du don: colloque de Royaumont, décembre 1990, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Michel Rabaté, and Michael Wetzel (eds), Paris: Métailié-Transition. Translated as The Gift of Death, David Wills (trans.), (Religion and Postmodernism), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. (Scholar)
• Eller, Vernard, 1968, Kierkegaard and Radical Discipleship, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Emmanuel, Steven, William McDonald, and Jon Stewart (eds), 2013–2015, Kierkegaard’s Concepts: Tomes I to VI, Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate. (Scholar)
• Evans, C. Stephen, 1983, Kierkegaard’s “Fragments” and “Postscript”: The Religious Philosophy of Johannes Climacus, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1990, Søren Kierkegaard’s Christian Psychology: Insights for Counselling and Pastoral Care, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. (Scholar)
• –––, 1992, Passionate Reason: Making Sense of Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, Kierkegaard’s Ethic of Love: Divine Commands and Moral Obligations, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/0199272174.001.0001 (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self: Collected Essays, Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, Kierkegaard: An Introduction, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511809699 (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, Kierkegaard and Spirituality: Accountability as the Meaning of Human Existence, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. (Scholar)
• Fenger, Henning, 1976 [1980], Kierkegaard-myter og Kierkegaard-kilder: 9 kildekritiske studier i de Kierkegaardske papirer, breve og aktstykker, (Odense University studies in Scandinavian languages and literatures 7), Odense: Odense Universitetsforlag. Translated as Kierkegaard, the Myths and Their Origins: Studies in the Kierkegaardian Papers and Letters, George C. Schoolfield (trans.), New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980. (Scholar)
• Ferreira, M. Jamie, 1991, Transforming Vision: Imagination and Will in Kierkegaardian Faith, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, Love’s Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard’s Works of Love, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/0195130251.001.0001 (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, Kierkegaard, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Fremstedal, Roe, 2014, Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good: Virtue, Happiness, and the Kingdom of God, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi:10.1057/9781137440884 (Scholar)
• –––, 2022, Kierkegaard on Self, Ethics, and Religion: Purity or Despair, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009076005 (Scholar)
• Frankfurt, Harry G., 1988, The Importance of What We Care about: Philosophical Essays, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511818172 (Scholar)
• Furtak, Rick Anthony, 2005, Wisdom in Love: Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2010, Kierkegaard’s “Concluding Unscientific Postscript”: A Critical Guide, (Cambridge Critical Guides), Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511782008 (Scholar)
• Garff, Joakim, 2000 [2005], Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, En biografi, Copenhagen: G.E.C. Gads Forlag. Translated as Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography, Bruce H. Kirmmse (trans.), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. (Scholar)
• Giles, James (ed.), 2008, Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought, Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9780230589827 (Scholar)
• Gouwens, David Jay, 1996, Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511520112 (Scholar)
• Green, Ronald M., 1992, Kierkegaard and Kant: The Hidden Debt, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1993, “Enough is Enough! Fear and Trembling is Not About Ethics”, Journal of Religious Ethics, 21(2): 191–209. doi:https://www.jstor.org/stable/40015166 (Scholar)
• Grøn, Arne, 1993 [2008], Begrebet angst hos Søren Kierkegaard, (Filosofi), Copenhagen: Gyldendal. Translated as The Concept of Anxiety in Søren Kierkegaard, Jeanette B. L. Knox (trans.), Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1997, Subjektivitet og Negativitet: Kierkegaard, Copenhagen: Gyldendal. (Scholar)
• Hall, Amy Laura, 2002, Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love, (Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought 9), Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511487736 (Scholar)
• Hall, Ronald L., 2000, The Human Embrace: The Love of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Love—Kierkegaard, Cavell, Nussbaum, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. (Scholar)
• Hampson, Daphne, 2013, Kierkegaard: Exposition and Critique, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199673230.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Hannay, Alastair, 1982, Kierkegaard, London/Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, Kierkegaard: A Biography, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511498152 (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, Kierkegaard and Philosophy: Selected Essays, London/New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203423196 (Scholar)
• Hannay, Alastair and Gordon Daniel Marino (eds), 1998, The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/ccol0521471516 (Scholar)
• Hanson, Jeffrey (ed.), 2010, Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist: An Experiment, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2022, “‘That Is Giving a Banquet’: Neighbor‐Love as Spiritualization of Romantic Loves in Works of Love”, Journal of Religious Ethics, 50(2): 196–218. doi:10.1111/jore.12387 (Scholar)
• Harries, Karsten, 2010, Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or, (Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series 21), Berlin/New York: De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110226898 (Scholar)
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1807 [1977], Phänomenologie des Geistes, Bamberg und Würzburg: Goebbardt. Translated as Phenomenology of Spirit, Arnold V. Miller (trans.), Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Hume, David, 1739–40 [1888], A Treatise of Human Nature, London: John Noon. New edition, L. A. Selby-Bigge (ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888. (Scholar)
• Kaftanski, Wojciech, 2021, Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity: A Study of Imitation, Existence, and Affect, London/New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Kangas, David J., 2007, Kierkegaard’s Instant: On Beginnings, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, Errant Affirmations: On the Philosophical Meaning of Kierkegaard’s Religious Discourses, London/New York: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
• Khan, Abrahim H., 2012, “Charles Taylor: Taylor’s Affinity to Kierkegaard”, in Stewart 2007–2017: Volume 11 Tome III. (Scholar)
• Kirmmse, Bruce H., 1990, Kierkegaard in Golden Age Denmark, Bloomington: Indiana State University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, Encounters with Kierkegaard: A Life as Seen by His Contemporaries, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Kosch, Michelle, 2006, Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard, Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/0199289115.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Krishek, Sharon, 2009, Kierkegaard on Faith and Love, (Modern European Philosophy), Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511770517 (Scholar)
• Laing, R. D., 1960, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, London: Tavistock Publications. (Scholar)
• Law, David R., 2013, Kierkegaard’s Kenotic Christology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199698639.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Lippitt, John, 2000, Humour and Irony in Kierkegaard’s Thought, London/New York: Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, “Getting the Story Straight: Kierkegaard, MacIntyre and Some Problems with Narrative”, Inquiry, 50(1): 34–69. doi:10.1080/00201740601154766 (Scholar)
• –––, 2013a, Kierkegaard and the Problem of Self-Love, New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139565110 (Scholar)
• –––, 2013b, “Kierkegaard and Moral Philosophy: Some Recent Themes”, in Lippitt and Pattison 2013: 504–527 (ch. 26). (Scholar)
• –––, 2015a, “Learning to Hope: the Role of Hope in Fear and Trembling”, in Conway 2015: 122–141. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015b, “Forgiveness and the Rat Man: Kierkegaard, ‘Narrative Unity’ and ‘Wholeheartedness’ Revisited”, in Lippitt and Stokes 2015: 126–143. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, The Routledge Guidebook to Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, second edition, London/New York: Routledge. First edition, 2003. (Scholar)
• –––, 2020, Love’s Forgiveness: Kierkegaard, Resentment, Humility, and Hope, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198861836.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Lippitt, John and Daniel Hutto, 1998, “Making Sense of Nonsense: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 98: 263–286. doi:10.1111/1467-9264.00037 (Scholar)
• Lippitt, John and George Pattison (eds.), 2013, The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard, (Oxford Handbooks), Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199601301.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Lippitt, John and Patrick Stokes (eds), 2015, Narrative, Identity and the Kierkegaardian Self, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
• Lisi, Leonardo, 2013, “Kierkegaard and Modern European Literature”, in Lippitt and Pattison 2013: 550–569 (ch. 28). (Scholar)
• Lowrie, Walter, 1938, Kierkegaard, London/New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1942, A Short Life of Kierkegaard, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Luther, Martin, 1520, Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen (On the Freedom of a Christian), Wittenberg. (Scholar)
• Løgstrup, Knud Ejler, 1956 [1997], Den etiske fordring, København: Gyldendal. Translated as The Ethical Demand, Theodor I. Jensen, Gary Puckering, and Eric Watkins (trans.), Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. (Scholar)
• MacIntyre, Alasdair C., 1981 [1984], After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. Second edition, 1984. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, “Once More on Kierkegaard”, in Davenport and Rudd 2001: 339–355. (Scholar)
• Mackey, Louis, 1986, Points of View: Readings of Kierkegaard, Tallahassee, FL: Florida State University Press. (Scholar)
• Mahn, Jason A., 2011, Fortunate Fallibility: Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin, (Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series), Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199790661.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Malantschuk, Gregor, 1968 [1971], Dialektik og Eksistens hos Søren Kierkegaard, Copenhagen: Hans Reitzel. Translated as Kierkegaard’s Thought, Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (trans.), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Reprinted 2016. (Scholar)
• Malik, Habib C., 1997, Receiving Søren Kierkegaard: The Early Impact and Transmission of His Thought, Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press. (Scholar)
• Martens, Paul, 2012, “Iris Murdoch: Kierkegaard as Existentialist, Romantic, Hegelian, and Problematically Religious”, in Stewart 2007–2017, Volume 11 Tome III. (Scholar)
• Matustik, Martin J. and Merold Westphal (eds), 1995, Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Minister, Stephen, J. Aaron Simmons, and Michael Strawser (eds), 2017, Kierkegaard’s God and the Good Life, (Indiana Series In The Philosophy Of Religion), Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Mjaaland, Marius Timmann, 2008, Autopsia: Self, Death and God After Kierkegaard and Derrida, Brian McNeil (trans.), Berlin and New York: De Gruyter. (Scholar)
• Mooney, Edward F., 1991, Knights of Faith and Resignation: Reading Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, Selves in Discord and Resolve: Kierkegaard’s Moral-Religious Psychology from Either/Or to Sickness Unto Death, New York and London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2008, Ethics, Love and Faith in Kierkegaard, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Mortensen, Finn Hauberg, 1996, Kierkegaard Made in Japan, Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark. (Scholar)
• Mulhall, Stephen, 2001, Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Nygren, Anders, 1930–1936 [1953], Den kristna kärlekstanken genom tiderna: Eros och Agape, 2 vols., Stockholm: Svenska Kyrkans Diakonistyrelses Bokförlag. Reprinted as Eros och Agape, 1966. Translated as Agape and Eros, Philip S. Watson (trans.), London: S.P.C.K., 1953. Reprinted New York: Harper and Row, 1969. (Scholar)
• Otani, Masaru, 1957 [2011], “The History of Kierkegaard Studies in Japan”, Kierkegaardiana, 2: 70–74. Reprinted, 2011, in Acta Kierkegaardiana Volume V: Kierkegaard East and West, 125–128. (Scholar)
• Patrick, Denzil G. M., 1947, Pascal and Kierkegaard: A Study in the Strategy of Evangelism, London: Lutterworth Press. (Scholar)
• Pattison, George, 1992, Kierkegaard: The Aesthetic and the Religious, New York: St. Martin’s Press. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-11818-2 (Scholar)
• –––, 2002, Kierkegaard’s Upbuilding Discourses: Philosophy, Theology, and Literature, (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy 2), London/New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203216576 (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, The Philosophy of Kierkegaard, Chesham, UK: Acumen. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, Kierkegaard and the Theology of the Nineteenth Century: The Paradox and the “Point of Contact”, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139088237 (Scholar)
• Pattison, George and Steven Shakespeare (eds), 1998, Kierkegaard The Self in Society, Basingstoke: Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-26684-5 (Scholar)
• Perkins, Robert L. (ed.), 1984–2010, International Kierkegaard Commentary, Macon, GA: Mercer University Press.

  Multi-volume series, with volumes for each of Kierkegaard’s works in the Kierkegaard’s Writings series.

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• Phillips, D. Z., 1999, Philosophy’s Cool Place, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Piety, M. G., 2010, Ways of Knowing: Kierkegaard’s Pluralist Epistemology, Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. (Scholar)
• Podmore, Simon D., 2011, Kierkegaard and the Self Before God: Anatomy of the Abyss, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Pojman, Louis P., 1984, The Logic of Subjectivity: Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Religion, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. (Scholar)
• Pons, Jolita, 2004, Stealing a Gift: Kierkegaard’s Pseudonyms and the Bible, New York: Fordham University Press. (Scholar)
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