The Literary Kierkegaard

Contents

Contents Preface xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction 3 Chapter One From Clouds to Corsair: Kierkegaard, Aristophanes, and Socrates 55 Chapter Two The Pure Fool and the Knight of Faith: Wolfram’s Parzival and the Stages of Existence 87 Chapter Three From Romantic Aesthete to Christian Analogue: Don Quixote’s Sallies in Kierkegaard’s Authorship 127 Chapter Four Saying Not Quite “Everything Just as It Is”: Shakespeare on Life’s Way 183 Chapter Five “Sorrow’s Changeling”: Irony, Humor, and Laughter in Kierkegaard and Carlyle 213 Conclusion 257 Appendix One Kierkegaard and Dante 311 Appendix Two Kierkegaard, Carlyle, and Silence 315 Notes 319 Index 387 ...