Publications

Monographs

• Kierkegaard and the Life-View. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2026).

• Die Wiederholung der Philosophie. Kierkegaards Kulturkritik und ihre Folgen. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015 (Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series, Vol. 32), 298pp. read more

  Contents

  Einleitung (p. 1)

  1. Philosophie nach der Philosophie (p. 19)

  2. Kierkegaards Kulturkritik (p. 35)

  3. Philosophiekritik (p. 118)

  4. Kierkegaards Wiederholung der Philosophie (p. 152)

  5. Am Ende: auch eine Philosophie der Tat (p. 253)

Edited Volumes

• Kierkegaard in France. A History of Reception and Influence (together with Andrew Sackin-Poll, New Research in the History of Western Philosophy). Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2025. read more

  Contents

  Introduction — Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal & Andrew Sackin-Poll (pp. 1–17)

  1. Kierkegaard's Either/Or in Shestov's Dialogue with Husserl — Ramona Fotiade (pp. 18–41)

  2. Wahl's Repetition of Kierkegaard: Dialectics and the Problem of Transcendence — Oliver Norman (pp. 42–66)

  3. A Reading Exercise: Fondane Listening to Kierkegaard — Andrea Bellantone (pp. 67–80)

  4. On Kierkegaard's Side: Re-situating Henri de Lubac's Theology amid the Non-humanist Turn in France — Joshua Furnal (pp. 81–114)

  5. Jankélévitch: a Paradoxical Reception of Kierkegaard — Pierre-Alban Gutkin-Guinfolleau (pp. 115–134)

  6. "You Know the Story": Sartre and Kierkegaard beyond Abraham — Kate Kirkpatrick (pp. 135–151)

  7. Equilibrium and Love, Self and Others: Simone de Beauvoir in Dialogue with Kierkegaard — Mélissa Fox-Muraton (pp. 152–174)

  8. Kierkegaard and Derrida: from Existential Mimesis to Mimesis Proper — Wojciech Kaftanski (pp. 175–199)

  9. From the Depths to the Surface: the Changing Place of Kierkegaard in Deleuze's Thought — Henry Somers-Hall (pp. 200–222)

  10. Anxiety and the Incarnate Spirit: Michel Henry's Analysis of Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety — Jeffrey Hanson (pp. 223–244)

  11. Ricœur's Reception of Kierkegaard — Iben Damgaard (pp. 245–269)

  12. Levinas on Kierkegaard… Again — J. Aaron Simmons & Seth Daves (pp. 270–296)

  13. More than Quotable: Kierkegaard's Iconic Presence in Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology — Amber Bowen (pp. 297–318)

  14. Agacinski on Kierkegaard: a Maternal Abraham — Frances Maughan-Brown (pp. 319–342)

  15. Variations on the Possible and the Impossible: a Contemporary Reading of Kierkegaard — Emmanuel Falque (pp. 343–364)

• Kierkegaard and Mysticism. Reception, Influence, Resonance (Contemporary Theological Explorations in Mysticism). London and New York: Routledge, 2025. read more

  Contents

  Introduction: Kierkegaard and Mysticism? — Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal

  Part I: Kierkegaard and the Mystical Tradition

  1. Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Kenotic Existence — Lee C. Barrett

  2. Agency and Contemplation: Neptic Themes in Kierkegaard — Daniel Watts

  3. Unio Mystica and the Infinite Difference between God and Human Being: Kierkegaard and Tauler — Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal

  4. Justification and Sanctification: Luther, Arndt, and Kierkegaard's Inheritance of Theologia Deutsch — David Lawrence Coe

  5. Purity of Heart and the Pure Love of God: Kierkegaard and Fénelon — George Pattison

  6. Modern Devotion: Thomas à Kempis, Søren Kierkegaard, and the Question of the Unio Mystica — Joel D. S. Rasmussen

  7. Upbuilding Religious Popular-Philosophy: Martensen's Eckhart and Kierkegaard's Defence of Mysticism — Elizabeth Li

  Part II: Approaching Mysticism with Kierkegaard

  8. The Mystical Horizon: The Temptation of Mysticism and the Transfiguration of Unio Mystica — Simon D. Podmore

  9. Rethinking Spirituality with Kierkegaard: The First Schleswig War and the Turn to Imitatio Christi — Christopher B. Barnett

  10. Contemplative Withdrawal and Ethical Life: A Kierkegaardian Critique — Rob Compaijen

  11. Muslim Sufism and Kierkegaard's Mysticism: Returning to the Finite World — Christopher Braddock

  12. Kierkegaard and the Three Characteristics of Existence in Buddhism — Jack Mulder

  Part III: Mysticism after Kierkegaard

  13. Contemporaneity with Christ: Cornelio Fabro's Kierkegaardian Approach to the Mystical Writings of St. Gemma Galgani — Joshua Furnal

  14. Antigone Again? Reading Kierkegaard and Simone Weil — Deborah Casewell

  15. Against the Hierarchization of Religion and Ethics: The Opposition of Hasidism and Kierkegaard in Martin Buber — Peter Šajda

  16. The Stranger Within: Kierkegaard, Mysticism, and the Unconscious — Peter Kline

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Die Wiederholung. In Kierkegaard-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, ed. Hermann Deuser, Markus Kleinert and Magnus Schlette. Stuttgart: Metzler (forthcoming April 2027).

• Die Krise oder eine Krise im Leben einer Schauspielerin. In Kierkegaard-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, ed. Hermann Deuser, Markus Kleinert and Magnus Schlette. Stuttgart: Metzler (forthcoming April 2027).

• What Happened to the Meadow? An Ecological Reading of Kierkegaard’s Works of Love. In Cambridge Critical Guide to “Works of Love”, ed. Wojciech Kaftanski and Jeffrey Hanson. Cambridge University Press, 2025, 132–150. read more

• Kierkegaard and Mysticism? An Introduction. In Kierkegaard and Mysticism. Reception, Influence, Resonance, ed. Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal. London and New York: Routledge, 2025, 1–13. read more

• Unio Mystica and the Infinite Difference Between God and Human Being: Kierkegaard and Tauler. In Kierkegaard and Mysticism. Reception, Influence, Resonance, ed. Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal. London and New York: Routledge, 2025, 44–56.read more

• The Inversion of Human Exceptionalism: Kierkegaard’s Lily & Bird Discourses Read Ecologically. In Kierkegaard and the Poetry of the Gospel, ed. Frances Maughan-Brown and Rick A. Furtak. London: Bloomsbury, 2025, 191–203. read more

• Introduction (together with Andrew Sackin-Poll). In Kierkegaard in France. A History of Reception and Influence. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2025, 1–17. read more

• Climate Despair from a Kierkegaardian Perspective: Asceticism, Possibility and Eschatological Hope. In Living in Uncertainty. Kierkegaard and Possibility, ed. Erin Plunkett. London: Bloomsbury, 2023, 184–203.read more

• Practicing for Death in the Anthropocene: Reading Christian Asceticism after the End of the Human (with Simone Kotva). Environmental Humanities 15.2 (July 2023), 105–123. read more

• Fast vergessen: Die Nachwirkungen von Kierkegaards Kulturkritik im Krisendiskurs der dänischen Nachkriegszeit. Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2023, 305–327.read more

• Nothing But Unworthy Servants? Kierkegaard and Tauler on Grace, Striving and Cooperation. Studies in Christian Ethics 35.4 (2022), special issue: Grace and Works in Kierkegaard, 729–747. read more

• Kierkegaard on Imagination: Hope, Possibility, and the Imitation of Christ. History of European Ideas 47.3 (2021), 484–499. read more

• Bild und Entbildung: Gedanken zum ‘Selfie’ im Ausgang von Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler und Søren Kierkegaard. In Was Bilder zu denken geben. Kulturphilosophische Essays zu Ehren von Ralf Konersmann, ed. Nicolai Mähl. Hamburg: Meinert, 2021, 210–218.

• Hitchcock Meets Kierkegaard: Gendered Forms of Despair in Vertigo and The Sickness Unto Death. Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, ed. Heiko Schulz, Jon Stewart, Karl Verstrynge. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, 285–300. read more

• Søren Kierkegaards kulturkritik i den danske efterkrigstids krisediskurs: filosofiske, teologiske og litterære motiver. In Den stumme myte. Nedslag i efterkrigstidens kulturkritik, ed. Anders Ehlers Dam. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2020, 71–98.

• Kierkegaard’s Reception of German Vernacular Mysticism: Johann Tauler’s Sermon on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross and Kierkegaard’s Practice in Christianity. International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 80.4–5 (2019): Kierkegaardian Echoes, 443–464. read more

• Kierkegaard on Existential Kenosis and the Power of the Image: Fear and Trembling and Practice in Christianity. Modern Theology 35.4 (2019), 706–727 (together with Ruby S. Guyatt). read more

• Ecodiegesis and Autobiography in Liptrot’s The Outrun. In Repräsentationsweisen des Anthropozän in Literatur und Medien, ed. Gabriele Dürbeck and Jonas Nesselhauf. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2018, 187–198.

• A Promise Kept, a Self Repeated? Reading Gjentagelsen with Ricœur. Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, ed. Heiko Schulz, Jon Stewart, Karl Verstrynge. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017, 379–393. read more

• Sokrates im Anthropozän. Gedanken zum Menschenmöglichen im Ausgang von Blumenberg und Valéry. In Paul Valéry: Für eine Epistemologie der Potentialität, ed. Pablo Valdivia Orozco and Andrea Allerkamp. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017, 155–173.

• Students’ Impression Management in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): An Opportunity for Existential Learning? Journal for Online Learning and Teaching 11.2 (2015), 320–330. open access

• What the Soufflé Girl Could Teach Descartes: On Self-Illusion, Self-Creation, and an Insanely Free Will. In More Doctor Who and Philosophy, ed. Courtland Lewis and Paula Smithka. Chicago: Open Court, 2015, 119–127.

• Gadfly. Kierkegaard’s Relation to Socrates. In Kierkegaard’s Literary Figures and Motifs (Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception, Resources, Vol. 16), ed. Katalin Nun and Jon Stewart. Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate, 2014, 259–277.

• Common Man. In Kierkegaard’s Concepts (Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception, Resources, Vol. 15), ed. Steven Emmanuel, William McDonald and Jon Stewart. Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate, 2014, 11–16.

• Mirroring God. Reflections of Meister Eckhart’s Thought in Kierkegaard’s Authorship. Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, ed. Heiko Schulz, Jon Stewart, Karl Verstrynge. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012, 3–24. read more

• Kulturkritik. In Handbuch Kulturphilosophie, ed. Ralf Konersmann. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2013, 46–53.

• From ‘Weltanschauung’ to ‘Livs-Anskuelse’: Kierkegaard’s Existential Philosophy. Humana Mente. Journal of Philosophical Studies 18 (2011), 1–18. open access

• Die Bühne auf der Bühne. Kierkegaards Philosophie des Einzelnen als Kulturkritik göttlicher Provenienz. Psycho-Logik. Jahrbuch für Psychotherapie, Philosophie und Kultur 5 (2010), 202–217.

• Heibergs ‘Volk und Publikum’. Die Menschenmenge und die Aufgabe des Intellektuellen. Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 4.2 (2010), 359–368.

Translations

• Johannes Tauler: On the Imago Dei and the Essential Conversions — a Translation of Sermon V.56 (with Evan King). Noesis 2 (2015), 90–100.

• Johan Ludvig Heiberg: Volk und Publikum. Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 2 (2010), 349–368.

Review Essays

• After the End: Repeated Suffering. Engaging Jeffrey Hanson’s Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith. Syndicate online symposium, July 2022. read online

• Becoming Oneself. Kierkegaard’s Subversive Account of ‘Bildung’. Engaging Jennifer Herdt’s Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition. Syndicate online symposium, October 2019. read online

• Madeleine Kim, Der Einzelne und das Allgemeine. In Kierkegaard Secondary Literature (Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Vol. 18, Tome IV), ed. Jon Stewart et al. Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate, 2015, 257–261.

• Johannes Sløk, Die Anthropologie Kierkegaards. In Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources (Vol. 18, Tome IV), ed. Jon Stewart et al. Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate, 2015, 317–320.

• Leben nach dem individuellen Gesetz. Review of Georg Simmel Gesamtausgabe, Vol. 23 (Briefe 1912–1918). Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 3.1 (2009), 164–167.

Reviews

• Review of Markus Kleinert, Andere Klarheit. Versuch über die Verklärung in Kunst, Religion und Philosophie. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2021. Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 75.1 (2022), 38–42.

• Review of Mark Schweda, Entzweiung und Kompensation. Joachim Ritters philosophische Theorie der modernen Welt. Freiburg and Munich: Karl Alber, 2014. Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 9.1–2 (2015), 340–341.

• Review of Massenfassungen. Beiträge zur Diskurs- und Mediengeschichte der Menschenmenge, ed. Susanne Lüdemann and Uwe Hebeskus. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2010. Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 4.2 (2010), 378.

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