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Kierkegaard's Works of Love, published in 1847, is considered a monumental text on love from one of the nineteenth century's greatest thinkers. It considers different types of love including Christian love and love of God, as well as love of a parent, a spouse, and a friend. It was initially considered austere and unrewarding as a philosophical and religious text, but is now being appraised more appreciatively from a diverse range of perspectives. The essays in this Critical Guide engage with Kierkegaard's unique view of love and expand upon topics including duty, virtue, selfhood, friendship, authenticity, God, hermeneutics, environmentalism, politics, justice, self-righteousness, despair, equality, commitment, sociality, and meaning in life. Drawing on both analytic and continental European traditions, they revisit the vexed and contested questions of this book and demonstrate its continuing relevance and importance to present-day debates.

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Jeffrey Hanson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at New College of Florida and Senior Philosopher at Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program. He is the author of Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith (2017), editor of Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist: An Experiment (2010), and co-editor of Kierkegaard's 'The Sickness unto Death': A Critical Guide (Cambridge 2022). Wojciech Kaftanski is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and Research Affiliate at Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program. He is the author of Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity: A Study of Imitation, Existence, and Affect (2022).

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