Isotopography: Kierkegaard's Topological Realism

While the concept of place remains undertheorized in Kierkegaard research, this study argues that place is at the center of Kierkegaard’s thinking. The first part of the book shows that Kierkegaard’s notion of situatedness as being-placed in a socio-historical situation conditioned by a situation prior to situatedness points to a realist position and a flat ontology.

Secondly, the book develops a detailed analysis of the ontological structure of the existential place (the place we ourselve...