Kierkegaard's Epistemology : A Centrally Directed Assessment of the Efficacy of his Authorship

"No find was more important to me ... than this little ... introduction to Kierkegaard's epistemology ... comprised primarily of passages extracted from Kierkegaard's works, with only occasional additions of analysis of their meaning. The relative paucity of analysis is explicable, however, by the fact that the passages more or less explain themselves. That is part of what makes the book so important. It shows very clearly that one does not have to dig deep to see that epistemological concerns were central to Kierkegaard's thought. ... This little book provides a necessary corrective to the view that ... epistemological concerns did not figure largely in his works. They did. ... This book is valuable ... not simply as an introduction to Kierkegaard's epistemology, but also as an introduction to the historical reception of Kierkegaard's thought. It is rich with references to such early Kierkegaard scholars as Olaf Peder Monrad, Harald Höffding, and Albert Bärthold, to name just a few. It demonstrates unequivocally not only that many early scholars got Kierkegaard wrong, but also that some actually got him right, and that we can benefit even today from reading them." -- from the foreword by M.G. Piety