Authorship is a complicated subject in Kierkegaard's work, which he surely recognized, given his late attempts to explain himself inOn My Work as an Author. From the use of multiple pseudonyms and antonyms, to contributions across a spectrum of media and genres, issues of authorship abound.
Why did Kierkegaard write in the ways he did? Before we assess Kierkegaard's famous thoughts on faith or love, or the relationship between 'the aesthetic,' 'the ethical,' and 'the religious,' we must approach how he expressed them. Given the multi-authored nature of his works, can we find a view or voice that is definitively Kierkegaard's own? Can entries in his unpublished journals and notebooks tell us what Kierkegaard himself thought? How should contemporary readers understand inconsistencies or contradictions between differently named authors?
We cannot make definitive claims about Kierkegaard's work as a thinker without understanding Kierkegaard's work as an author. This collection, by leading contemporary Kierkegaard scholars, is the first to systematically examine the divisive question and practice of authorship in Kierkegaard from philosophical, literary and theological perspectives.
Joseph Westfallis Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston-Downtown, USA. He is the author of
The Kierkegaardian Author(2007), editor of
The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader(Bloomsbury, 2018), and co-editor of
Foucault and Nietzsche: A Critical Encounter(Bloomsbury, 2018).
Authorship and Authority or A Master of Disguises this collection by renowned and early career Kierkegaard scholars weaves a tapestry of different approaches and voices as diverse as Kierkegaard's authorship itself. A must-read for anyone interested in the work of the elusive Dane and the 'meta-philosophy' of his pseudonymous and non-pseudonymous writings. Genia Sch?nbaumsfeld, Professor of Philosophy, University of Southampton, UK
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