Kierkegaard's Existentialism: The Theological Self and the Existential Self

Of all the philosophers in the vast and varied history of philosophy, Soren Kierkegaard alone concentrated on describing how it was that one became a self. In Kierkegaard's Existentialism, Dr. George Leone describes what it means to become a self as exemplified in the life and writings of Kierkegaard.

Leone discusses how from the beginning Kierkegaard's main concern was to examine what it meant to be a self within the Christianity of his day. In the process, he developed what came to be kno...