Contents

1. Title Page
2. Copyright Notice
3. Dedication
4. Epigraph
5. Preface
6. The Life of Søren Kierkegaard: Key Events and Major Publications
7. PART ONE
   May 1843: Return Journey
8.   1  Living the Question of Existence
9.   2  ‘My Regine!’
10.   3  In Defiance of Pseudo-Philosophers
11.   4  Following Abraham Home
12. PART TWO
    1848–1813: Life Understood Backwards
13.   5  Learning to be Human: Lesson One
14.   6  ‘Come Unto Me’
15.   7  Aesthetic Education
16.   8  Living without a Life-View
17.   9  The Socrates of Christendom
18. 10  Repetition: A New Philosophy of Life
19. 11  How to be Anxious
20. 12  Life’s Labyrinth
21. PART THREE
    1849–1855: Life Lived Forwards
22. 13  At Odds with the World
23. 14  ‘This is How it is with Me’
24. 15  The Last Battle
25. Kierkegaard’s Afterlife
26. Prayer*
27. Notes
28. Acknowledgements
29. Index
30. Illustration Credits
31. A Note About the Author
32. Copyright