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vii Acknowledgments Many people have contributed either directly or indirectly to the project this volume represents. I first began working on Kierkegaard’s epistemology when I was a graduate student at McGill University. Merold Westphal very kindly agreed to help direct my work even though he was at Fordham and not McGill. I received a great deal of helpful advice and criticism from him, and for that I will always be in his debt. Many other people were helpful as well. C. Stephen Evans, Robert L. Perkins, Sylvia Walsh Perkins, and Anthony Rudd have been tireless supporters and fonts of information. Julia Watkin and Paul Müller helped me to navigate my way through Danish sources during the early stages of my learning Danish. George Kline, who directed my M.A. thesis on Kierkegaard, was almost single-handedly responsible for turning me into a scholar. Special thanks must go to my dear friend Ebba Mørkeberg, who not only patiently endured my early struggles with Danish but also agreed to tutor me in German over a period of what must have been five years, and to my friends Ole and Jette Püschl, who graciously hosted a philosophy discussion group, of which I was a member. The group, which also included Ebba, began just after my first year in Denmark and continued unabated until I left seven years later. I miss those meetings still. My parents, Patricia Piety and Harold Piety, deserve thanks for being supportive of my interest in philosophy in general and Kierkegaard in viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS particular, and my father deserves special thanks for being nearly as important an intellectual resource as Google. Thanks must also go to the chair of my department, Abioseh Porter, and the dean of my college, Donna Murasko, for being consistently understanding and supportive when I was repeatedly overwhelmed by this project. I would like as well to thank the entire membership of the Søren Kierkegaard Society, or at least the members who show up for the dinner every year at the annual conference of the American Academy of Religion. Where would I be, I wonder, without their warm support? They feel almost like family now. Two people, however, deserve more thanks than all the rest. My undergraduate professor Robert L. Horn was the single most important influence on my intellectual development. He not only introduced me to Kierkegaard but also generously allowed me to monopolize his office hours for most of my senior year and encouraged me to go on to do graduate work in philosophy . And then there is my husband, Brian J. Foley, who patiently read every single page of the manuscript and whose excellent editing skills have improved it immeasurably. Thank you. Thank you all. ...

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