Kierkegaardian Phenomenologies edited by J. Aaron Simmons, Jeffrey Hanson, and Wojciech Kaftanski, offers a substantive, diverse, and timely consideration of phenomenological engagements within the thought of Soren Kierkegaard. Featuring original essays from a distinguished global collection of established and emerging scholars representing different schools of thought, this volume explains how the interest in a phenomenological reading of Kierkegaard is not only vital, but continues to grow in importance by way of reaching new users and forcing the old users to revisit their views. Divided into four parts--Phenomenological Explorations, On Hearing and Seeing, Rethinking Faith and Despair, and Kierkegaard and New Phenomenology--this collection not only reflects the current state of scholarly conversations in both Kierkegaardian studies and phenomenological research, but also envisions new directions in which they should go, exploring ways that a Kierkegaardian approach to phenomenology might help us to re-envision Kierkegaard scholarship and re-enliven phenomenological philosophy.
J. Aaron Simmons is professor of philosophy at Furman University.
Jeffrey Hanson is senior philosopher in the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University.
Wojciech Kaftanski is postdoctoral fellow in the Interdisciplinary Center for Ethics at Jagiellonian University and a research affiliate in the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University.
Acknowledgments
Sigla for Kierkegaard Works
Introduction by J. Aaron Simmons, Jeffrey Hanson, and Wojciech Kaftnaski
Part One: Phenomenological Explorations
Chapter 1: Kierkegaard: A Kind of Transcendental Phenomenologist, by Merold Westphal
Chapter 2: Kierkegaard’s Proto-Phenomenological Reduction of the Self, by Wojciech Kaftanski
Part Two: On Hearing and Seeing
Chapter 3: Listening to the Word: A Kierkegaardian Phenomenology of Hearing, by Amber Bowen
Chapter 4: Hearing the Word of God: Husserl, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard on God and Conscience, by Steven DeLay
Chapter 5: A Phenomenological Account of Kierkegaard’s Stages, by Eleanor Helms
Part Three: Rethinking Faith and Despair
Chapter 6: What Is It Like to Be a Despairer?, by Sharon Krishek
Chapter 7: The Single Individual: Phenomenology and Kierkegaard’s Subjectivity of Faith, by René Rosfort
Chapter 8: Kierkegaard and Fanon on Hegel: Does a Shared Critique of Hegel Suggest Decolonial Possibilities for a Kierkegaardian Christian Faith—or Not?, by Chris Boesel
Part Four: Kierkegaard and New Phenomenology
Chapter 9: Is it Possible to Consider God as a Possibility?: On Marion’s Reduction, Lacoste’s Irreducible Phenomenon, and Kierkegaard’s Perforated Self, by Thomas J. Millay
Chapter 10: The Problem of Existence and the Intimacy of Being: Issues and Perspectives, by Joaquim Hernandez-Dispaux
Chapter 11: The Weapons of the Weaker: Gaining Patience with Henry, Chrétien, and Kierkegaard, by J. Aaron Simmons
About the Contributors
A remarkable unfolding of a Kierkegaardian approach to phenomenology. The essays in this volume are indicative of a genuine opening in Kierkegaard scholarship, implementing new ways of reading his signed and pseudonymous texts. — Frances Maughan-Brown, College of the Holy Cross
