Kierkegaard in France: A History of Reception and Influence
Series: New Research in the History of Western Philosophy; 10;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 27 November 2025
- ISBN 9789004727847
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages370 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 1 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This collection explores Kierkegaard’s influence on French thought, tracing his impact on existentialism, phenomenology, poststructural-ism, and feminism through figures like Sartre, Derrida, and Beauvoir, while uncovering overlooked readings and his enduring role in shap-ing the continental philosophical and theological tradition.
MoreLong description:
Why does Kierkegaard’s thought remain vital in French philosophy and theology? Kierkegaard in France traces the dynamic evolution of Kierkegaard’s reception from the early 20th century to contemporary debates on faith, ethics, and individuality. His influence on French thought is examined anew with regard to well-known thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, and Paul Ricœur, as well as readings that have largely been overlooked, like those by Simone de Beauvoir and Vladimir Jankélévitch. From existentialism and phenomenology to poststructuralism and feminism, Kierkegaard continues to be an essential interlocutor in shaping the ‘continental’ tradition of thought in France.
There is a natural affinity between Kierkegaard’s uniquely intense, subjectively-involved metaphysical realism and the French spiritualist
tradition which eschews both idealism and reductive empiricism. This book brings out that affinity and displays it in all the variety of
its manifestations, both religious and secular, both speculative and existentialist. An indispensable and monumental entry for scholars and
intriguing read for a wider audience.
—Catherine Pickstock, Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge
As this outstanding collection shows, Kierkegaard’s French readers have produced a series of brilliant insights that extend and challenge the interpretation of his work, often thinking ‘with’ Kierkegaard as much as ‘about’ him. This is a state-of-the-art volume that will also provide a valuable resource for students at all levels for many years to come.
—George Pattison, University of Glasgow
"There is a natural affinity between Kierkegaard’s uniquely intense, subjec-tively-involved metaphysical realism and the French spiritualist tradition which eschews both idealism and reductive empiricism. This book brings out that affinity and displays it in all the variety of its manifestations, both religious and secular, both speculative and existentialist. An indispensable and monumental entry for scholars and intriguing read for a wider audience." - Catherine Pickstock, Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge
"For close on a century, Kierkegaard has been a significant presence in French intellectual life, yet the French reception of Kierkegaard has from the beginning been highly idiosyncratic and has produced relatively few of the large thematic monographs such as the German and Anglophone traditions have copiously produced. Nevertheless, as this outstanding collection shows, Kierkegaard’s French readers have produced a series of brilliant insights that extend and challenge the interpretation of his work, often thinking ‘with’ Kierkegaard as much as ‘about’ him. The contributions are uniformly schol-arly, lucid, and original, expanding our understanding of the issues at play in Kierkegaard’s work in the prism of French philosophy’s greatest thinkers, from the 1930s to the present day. This is a state-of-the-art volume that will also provide a valuable resource for students at all levels for many years to come." - George Pattison, University of Glasgow
