Kierkegaard
Research: Sources, Reception and Resources
Kierkegaard
Research:
Sources, Reception and Resources
is a collective
research project that began in 2005, with the first volumes
appearing
in 2007.
It represents the work of more than 200 leading scholars
from some 50
different countries. The guiding idea behind the project was
to create
a publication
series, which would serve as both a reference work for
students and
scholars
and as a forum for new research. The project attempts to
cover all of
the main
areas of Kierkegaard research in a systematic fashion. This
series is
divided
into three large parts, each of which consists of 7 volumes,
which are
further
subdivided into individual tomes.
The first part is entitled “Kierkegaard’s
Sources.” This category includes
articles that perform source-work research in order to
discover and document
the numerous sources of Kierkegaard’s thought. These are
divided into
individual volumes according to the historical period of the
sources in
question, beginning with Kierkegaard’s use of the Bible and
ending with his use
of Danish works from his own time. Altogether this section
contains 15
individual tomes.
The second part of the series is “Kierkegaard
Reception.” This section
represents, as it were, the mirror image of the section on
source-work
research. Instead of tracing the influence of earlier
authors on Kierkegaard,
this section features articles that explore Kierkegaard’s
influence on later
philosophers, theologians and writers. The first volume of
this section (vol.
8) explores the reception of Kierkegaard on a
country-by-country basis. The
second volume (vol. 9) is dedicated to the rich and complex
tradition of
Kierkegaard and existentialism. The remaining volumes in
this section are
organized according to the reception of Kierkegaard in
specific fields:
theology, philosophy, literature, the social sciences, and
social-political
thought. This
second section consists of 17 tomes.
The
third
part, “Kierkegaard
Resources,” consists of a series of reference
works
and research tools in the stricter sense. The first volume
of this section
(vol. 15) represents a multi-tome Kierkegaard dictionary
that offers individual
articles on key terms used in Kierkegaard’s authorship. The
next volume (vol.
16) features articles on key literary figures and motifs
that Kierkegaard uses
in his works. Next is a volume (vol. 17) dedicated to
exploring the character
of Kierkegaard’s individual pseudonymous authors. The next
volume (vol. 18)
represents a database of book reviews covering the secondary
literature on
Kierkegaard in a number of different languages. This is
followed by a
multi-tome bibliography of Kierkegaard literature, both
editions of his primary
texts and secondary literature (vol. 19). The next volume
provides a list of
the books Kierkegaard owned as they appear in the auction
catalogue of his
library (vol. 20). The final volume of this section (vol.
21) is a cumulative
index to the entire series. This
third section consists of 26 tomes.
The
series is now complete with the publication of the three
tomes of the cumulative index in 2017.
From 2007 until 2015 Kierkegaard Research: Sources,
Reception and Resources
was published by Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot). The final
volumes of the
series that appeared in 2016 and 2017 were published by
Ashgate’s successor,
Routledge,
Taylor &
Francis Group (London and New York).
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Reviews
"The
near completion of Kierkegaard
Research:
Sources, Reception and Resources (KRSRR)
marks the success of a
project—clearly the largest body of interconnected
secondary literature ever
published in Kierkegaard Studies—that would hardly have
seen the light of day,
had it not been for the bold initiative and steadfast
stewardship of Jon Stewart of the Søren Kierkegaard
Research Centre in Copenhagen."
Poul
Houe, “Kierkegaard Sources, Influences,
and Reception in the Present Age of Inter-texts and
–textuality,” Søren
Kierkegaard Newsletter, no. 63, 2014, pp. 2-12.
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"Kierkegaard
Research:
Sources, Reception and Resources is continuing
to prove a remarkable
achievement and is cumulatively providing an important
point of reference for all
those working on Kierkegaard...."
George
Pattison,
Marginalia: A Review of
Books in History, Theology and Religion,
January 29, 2013 (online journal).
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"This
multi-volume
reference work is a contribution of the highest caliber to
academic research on Kierkegaard....The general editor Jon
Stewart
together
with his co-editors must be thanked for orchestrating such
a vast
undertaking. Their work is nothing less than a largesse to
the future
of Kierkegaard
scholarship."
Mads Sohl Jessen, Søren
Kierkegaard Newsletter, no. 58, 2011, pp. 4-5.
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"The
series is the most important single collection of secondary
literature on
Kierkegaard to be published in recent years and it is
possibly the most
important ever published."
Will
Williams,
Religious Studies Review,
vol. 35, no. 4, 2009, p. 252.
Editor-in-Chief
Jon
Stewart,
Ph.d., Dr. theol. & phil.
Editorial Board
Katalin Nun Stewart
Peter
Šajda
Finn Gredal Jensen
Advisory Board
Lee C. Barrett
María J. Binetti
István Czakó
Heiko Schulz
Curtis L. Thompson
