KIERKEGAARD, SOREN

Additional reading Biographical and critical works include Walter Lowrie, Kierkegaard (1938, reissued in 2 vol., 1970), a comprehensive study of his life and thought; Johannes Hohlenberg, Sren Kierkegaard (1954, reprinted 1978), a reliable account; Peter P. Rohde, Sren Kierkegaard: An Introduction to His Life and Philosophy (1963), for the general reader; Gregor Malantschuk, Kierkegaard's Thought (1971, reprinted 1974), a standard work; James Collins, The Mind of Kierkegaard (1953, reissued with a new preface and bibliography, 1983), a good introduction to Kierkegaard's philosophy; John W. Elrod, Kierkegaard and Christendom (1981), a study of the later religious works; Niels Thulstrupp, Commentary on Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1984), a helpful explication of this important text; Joseph H. Smith (ed.), Kierkegaard's Truth: The Disclosure of the Self (1981), a multiauthor collection of essays, approaching Kierkegaard's work from literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytic viewpoints; Lev Shestov, Kierkegaard and the Existential Philosophy (1969), the first work to underline the existentialist point of view; Eduard Geismar, Lectures on the Religious Thought of Sren Kierkegaard (1937), a clear account of Kierkegaard's thought by one of his leading students; Adi Shmeli, Kierkegaard and Consciousness (1971), a penetrating account of Kierkegaard's thought; and Mark C. Taylor, Journeys to Selfhood: Hegel and Kierkegaard (1980), a clear comparison. See also Franois H. Lapointe, Sren Kierkegaard and His Critics: An International Bibliography of Criticism (1980).