Starting with Kierkegaard (Hardcover)

Preface and Acknowledgements \ List of Abbreviations \ 1. Introduction, Historical Context and Biographical Outline \ i. Short Introduction: A Starting Place for Kierkegaard \ ii. Biographical Outline \ iii. Influences and Historical Context \ 2. Central Themes and Key Motifs \ i. The Occasion and an Occasion for Starting \ ii. Sin \ iii. Self-accusation \ iv. Comparison \ v. Stillness \ vi. The Multiplicity \ 3. Immediacy \ i. The Varieties of Immediacy in Works from the Mid-1840s \ ii. Immediacy and the Religious Follower \ iii. Immediacy in The Sickness unto Death \ 4. Ethics and Love \ i. In Search of the Ethical \ ii. Starting with God \ iii. How Is It To Be Done? \ iv. Starting with My Wretchedness \ v. True Love is Wanting to Be in the Wrong! \ vi. Uneasy Participation \ 5. Despair and Hope \ i. Despair in The Sickness Unto Death \ ii. Despair Leading Into Hope \ iii. Kierkegaard and Paul: Romans and Corinthians in Works of Love \ 6. His Continuing Relevance: Community and the Individual \ i. The Impenitent Crowd \ ii. Individuals and 'the Idea' \ iii. Kierkegaard Versus the Herd \ iv. Denmark's a Prison \ v. Kierkegaard: Conservative Revolutionary \ vi. Faith In Others As a Basis \ vii. Community and Individuality \ viii. Democracy and Equality \ ix. Adorno's Critique \ x. Kierkegaard On the Offensive \ xi. Alternative endings \ Bibliography \ i. Primary Sources: Kierkegaard in Translation \ ii. Secondary Literature on Kierkegaard \ Index.