These readings of Kierkegaard begin with a series of reflections on the background to his thought and writings, examining Romanticism, German Idealism and Danish intellectual history in the early 19th century. The author analyzes the role of indirect communication in Kierkegaard's authorship.

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Idealism and the justification of the image; the genealogy of art; the dialectics of communication; life in the magic theatre; nihilism and the novel; reading, repentance and the crucifixion of the image.