Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society

Contents

Preface vii

Abbreviations xi

1. Prolegomena to Any Future Philosophy of Religion

That Will Be Able to Come Forth as Prophecy 1

2. Kierkegaard as a Prophetic Philosopher 19

3. Kierkegaard's Politics 29

4. Kierkegaard's Sociology 43

5. Abraham and Hegel 61

6. Kierkegaard and the Logic of Insanity 85

7. Inwardness and Ideology Critique in Kierkegaard's Fragments and Postscript 105

Index 127

Merold Westphal is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University and author of History and Truth in Hegel's "Phenomenology" (1979) and God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion (1987).