How to Read Kierkegaard

S ren Kierkegaard is one of the prophets of the contemporary age, a man whose acute observations on modern European life might have been written yesterday, whose work anticipated fundamental developments in psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and the critique of mass culture by more than a century. John D. Caputo offers a compelling account of Kierkegaard as a thinker of part...

S ren Kierkegaard is one of the prophets of the contemporary age, a man whose acute observations on modern European life might have been written yesterday, whose work anticipated fundamental developments in psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and the critique of mass culture by more than a century. John D. Caputo offers a compelling account of Kierkegaard as a thinker of particular relevance in our postmodern times, who set off a revolution that counts Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida among its heirs. His conceptions of truth as a self-transforming deed and his haunting account of the single individual seem to have been written especially with us in mind. Extracts include Kierkegaard s classic reading of the story of Abraham and Isaac, the revolutionary theory that truth is subjectivity, and his groundbreaking analysis of modern bourgeois life.

约翰·D.卡普托 （John D. Caputo）

美国当代知名哲学家，雪城大学和维拉诺瓦大学荣誉哲学教授。其代表作有《如何阅读克尔凯郭尔》《上帝之死以后》《真理》等。

周荣胜

北京大学哲学博士、复旦大学中文系教授。主要从事西方现代哲学、比较诗学等领域研究，著有《文字场景》《比较诗学：理论与实践》等著作。