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C. Stephen Evans is Professor of Philosophy and Curator of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN.

Explanation of Primary Source Citations	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Reading Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Literature
Writing About Kierkegaard	p. 1
The Specific Character of this Book: How it Differs from Some Others	p. 3
Getting Started: The Problem of Pseudonymity	p. 6
Indirect Communication and Subjective Understanding: A First Look	p. 9
Existence-Spheres and Pseudonymity	p. 11
Reading Johannes Climacus
Hegel and Christianity	p. 17
Climacus' Personal Characteristics: A "Humoristic, Experimental Psychologist"	p. 21
The Fragments as an Example of an "Experiment"	p. 24
The Postscript: Combatting Intellectualism and "Christendom"	p. 28
Existence and Existence Spheres: Climacus' Reading of Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Literature
The Aesthetic Life	p. 33
The Ethical Life: Existence and Passion	p. 36
Religious Existence	p. 41
The Nature of the Spheres of Existence	p. 46
Climacus and Kierkegaard Again: Viewing the Pseudonyms	p. 49
Existence and Passion: "Reduplicating" Eternity in Time
Existence as a Contrasting Synthesis	p. 55
The Eternal	p. 59
Is Climacus a Metaphysician?	p. 64
Temporality	p. 66
Passion	p. 68
Existence and the Ethical: Becoming a Self
The Ethical as the Sphere of Responsible Choice	p. 73
"Soul-Making" vs. "Society-Transforming" Ethics	p. 75
Are Ethical "Results" Important?	p. 78
The Content of the Ethical Task: Supplying Matter for the Ethical Form	p. 81
Soul-Making Ethics: A Humanistic Ethic for Today?	p. 86
Subjectivity and Communication
Communication and Existence	p. 95
Objective and Subjective Communication	p. 96
Is Subjective Reflection Thought or Action?	p. 98
A Type of Subjective Understanding That IS Equivalent to Action: Existential Understanding	p. 100
Communicating Subjectivity: The Concept of the Maieutic	p. 102
Methods for Communicating Indirectly	p. 105
Types of Maieutic Communicators	p. 107
A Critical Note: Communication as a Relational Concept	p. 111
Truth and Subjectivity
Truth and Salvation	p. 115
Classical Theories of Truth and Their Limitations	p. 116
Truth and Existence	p. 119
Moral and Religious Truth as "Essential Truth": Can a Life be True?	p. 123
Does Subjective Truth Exclude Objective Truth?	p. 127
Truth as a Function of Passion	p. 131
Subjectivity as Untruth: The Christian Perspective	p. 133
Immanent Religion (1): God and an Eternal Happiness
Philosophical Reflection on the Religious Life	p. 137
Religion and Ethics	p. 139
An Eternal Happiness and the Absolute Telos	p. 141
An Eternal Happiness as a God-Relationship	p. 147
Immanent Religion (2): Resignation, Suffering, and Guilt
The Religious Life as a Process	p. 161
Negativity	p. 162
The Initial Task: Resignation and "the Absolute Commitment to the Absolute"	p. 163
Suffering	p. 168
"Spiritual Trial" and the Transcending of the Ethical Stage	p. 173
Guilt	p. 176
Irony and Humor: Some Boundary Situations
Irony and Humor as Existential Transition Zones	p. 185
Contradiction and Negativity in Life	p. 187
Culture and Reflection: Is the Theory of Existence-Spheres Universal or Applicable Only to an Elite?	p. 190
Irony	p. 192
Re-thinking the Existence-Spheres: Where to Place Humor in Relation to Religiousness	p. 195
Humor as Recollection and "Revoking": Climacus as Humorist	p. 201
Transcendent Religion (1): Reason and the Paradox
Climacus and Christianity: Existence-Communication	p. 207
Can Faith Be Rationally Examined?	p. 210
Logic and the Paradox: Is the Paradox a Formal Contradction?	p. 212
Is the Paradox an Apparent Contradiction?	p. 219
The Paradox as the Boundary of Reason	p. 222
The Perfect Synthesis of Time and Eternity: "The Strangest of All Things"	p. 225
The Paradox: Against and/or Above Reason?	p. 232
Kierkegaard and Climacus on the Paradox	p. 237
The Functions of the Paradox	p. 240
Transcendent Religion (2): Faith and History
Introduction	p. 247
Faith and Historical Evidence	p. 251
Faith as Not Based on Historical Evidence
Faith as Built on Historical Evidence
The Nature of Faith	p. 260
Faith in the Ordinary Sense
Faith in the Eminent Sense
Faith and Sin-Consciousness	p. 271
The Leap	p. 274
Can Faith Be Understood?	p. 277
Conclusions: Objectivity and Subjectivity in Human Existence
The Inner and the Outer	p. 281
The Ethical Life	p. 287
The Natural Religious Life	p. 287
Christian Existence	p. 289
Selected Bibliography	p. 293
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