Further Reading
FURTHER READING
For some useful literature in connection with A Literary Review, see the collection of essays devoted to A Literary Review in N. J. Cappelørn and H. Deuser (eds), Kierkegaard Studies: Yearbook 1999 (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 1999); H. L. Dreyfus and J. Rubin, ‘Kierkegaard on the Nihilism of the Present Age: The Case of Commitment as Addiction’, Synthese 98/1 (January 1994), pp. 3–19; H. Fenger, The Heibergs, trans. F. J. Marker, Twayne World Authors Series (Twayne Publishers, New York, 1971); A. Hannay, ‘Kierkegaard’s Present Age and Ours’, in M. Wrathall and J. Malpas (eds), Heidegger, Authenticity and Modernity: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus, vol. 1 (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2000), pp. 105–22, notes pp. 354–6; G. Kjær, ‘Thomasine Gyllembourg, Author of A Story for Everyday Life’, in R. L. Perkins (ed.), International Kierkegaard Commentary: Early Polemical Writings (Mercer University Press, Macon, Ga., 1999), pp. 87–108; and G. Pattison, ‘Poor Paris!’: Kierkegaard’s Critique of the Spectacular City, Kierkegaard Studies: Monograph Series 2, ed. N. J. Cappelørn and C. Tolstrup (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 1999).
For a comprehensive view of the wider background to Kierkegaard’s writings in the context of his contemporaries, see B. H. Kirmmse, Kierkegaard in Golden Age Denmark (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1990).
For general surveys of Kierkegaard’s works and essays relating them to more recent thought, see A. Hannay and G. D. Marino (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998); M. J. Matustik and M. Westphal (eds), Kierkegaard in Post-Modernity (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1995); and J. Rée and J. Chamberlain (eds), Kierkegaard: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, Oxford, 1998).
For biographies see A. Hannay, Kierkegaard: A Biography (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001); W. Lowrie, Kierkegaard (Oxford University Press, London, New York and Toronto, 1938); and J. Thomson, Kierkegaard (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973). For valuable biographical background material, see B. H. Kirmmse (ed.), Encounters with Kierkegaard: A Life as Seen by His Contemporaries, trans. B. H. Kirmmse and V. R. Laursen (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1996).