Evans, C. Stephen. Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self: Collected Essays. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2006. A collection of “greatest hits,” articles written over a 25-year period with two new essays, focusing particularly on issues of faith and reason, psychology, and ethics.Google Scholar

Evans, C. Stephen. Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love: Divine Commands and Moral Obligations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. This book discusses Kierkegaard as an ethicist, with brief looks at such works as Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, and Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits. However, the bulk of the book is devoted to an account of the ethic presented in Works of Love, which is read as a “divine command” view of moral obligations. Arguments are given that this kind of ethic is superior to its secular, contemporary rivals.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Evans, C. Stephen. Faith Beyond Reason. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998. This book discusses in what ways Kierkegaard is and is not a “fideist,” by arguing that he offers a critique of reason that is itself reasonable.Google Scholar

Evans, C. Stephen. Passionate Reason: Making Sense of Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1992. A chapter by chapter commentary, focusing particularly on the issues raised by Kierkegaard's understanding of the incarnation and his view of the relation of faith to history.Google Scholar

Evans, C. Stephen. Kierkegaard's Fragments and Postscript: The Religious Philosophy of Johannes Climacus. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1983. Reprinted Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, 1999. This work gives an overview of the crucial “Johannes Climacus” pseudonymous books by analyzing the key concepts found in the works.Google Scholar

Garff, Joakim. Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005. This highly acclaimed biography, translated by Bruce Kirmmse, is readable and informative, but somewhat marred by the author's cynical and debunking view of Kierkegaard's own self-understanding.Google Scholar

Kirmmse, Bruce, ed. Encounters with Kierkegaard: A Life as Seen by His Contemporaries. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996. Not strictly a biography, but a compilation of everything written about Kierkegaard by his contemporaries. All the material for a do-it-yourself biography.

Lowrie, Walter. A Short Life of Kierkegaard. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1942. Lowrie, who provided the majority of the early translations of Kierkegaard into English, introduced several generations of readers to Kierkegaard. Though not wholly uncritical, Lowrie was a great lover of the Dane.Google Scholar

Lefevre, Perry D.The Prayers of Kierkegaard. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1956. Some of these prayers have been set to music by Samuel Barber.Google Scholar

Oden, Thomas, ed. The Humor of Kierkegaard. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Oden, Thomas, ed. The Parables of Kierkegaard. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1978.

Some of the best scholarship about Kierkegaard in the English language can be found in the volumes of the International Kierkegaard Commentary, edited by Perkins, Robert L. and published by Mercer University Press.

Bukdahl, Jørgen. Kierkegaard and the Common Man. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2001. A fascinating study of Kierkegaard's political and social attitudes, by a Danish scholar with a translation by Bruce Kirmmse.Google Scholar

Davenport, John J. and Rudd, Anthony, eds. Kierkegaard After MacIntyre. Chicago: Open Court, 2001. A challenge to the influential reading of Kierkegaard by Alasdair MacIntyre as a proponent of “radical choice.” Many essays read Kierkegaard as a virtue ethicist.

Denzil, G. M. Patrick. Pascal and Kierkegaard: A Study in the Strategy of Evangelism. London: Lutterworth Press, 1943. Hard to find but interesting comparative study by a Scotsman who was a returned missionary and takes seriously Kierkegaard's own claim to be a missionary to “Christendom.”Google Scholar

Eller, Vernard. Kierkegaard and Radical Discipleship. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1968. Reads Kierkegaard, quite convincingly, as an Anabaptist-style Christian who was a radical critic of established western society.Google Scholar

Elrod, John W.Kierkegaard and Christendom. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1981. Good study of Kierkegaard as a social and political thinker.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Ferreira, M. Jamie. Love's Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard's Works of Love. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Splendid commentary on Kierkegaard's most important work in ethics; demolishes many widely-held misunderstandings and criticisms.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Ferreira, M. Jamie. Transforming Vision: Imagination and Will in Kierkegaardian Faith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Sees the “leap of faith” more as an imaginative reorientation than an arbitrary act of will.Google Scholar

Gouwens, David J.Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. One of the best books on Kierkegaard as a theologian.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Kirmmse, Bruce. Kierkegaard in Golden Age Denmark. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1990. Groundbreaking work by an historian that sets Kierkegaard's thought in the context of nineteenth-century Denmark; gives attention to the importance of industrialization and social change in this period.Google Scholar

Lippitt, John. Humor and Irony in Kierkegaard's Thought. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. Clearly written and informative study of an important dimension of Kierkegaard's thought.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Mackey, Louis. Kierkegaard: A Kind of Poet. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971. Takes a literary approach to Kierkegaard that undermines traditional philosophical approaches.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Mackey, Louis. Points of View. Tallahassee, Florida: University Press of Florida (Florida State University Press), 1986. Extends the literary approach of his first book by arguing that there is no single “point of view” for understanding Kierkegaard's authorship; even the non-pseudonymous books are by a “persona.”Google Scholar

Malik, Habib C.Receiving Søren Kierkegaard: The Early Impact and Transmission of His Thought. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1997. Delivers just what the title promises.Google Scholar

Mullen, John Douglas. Kierkegaard's Philosophy: Cowardice and Self-Deceit in the Present Age. New York: New American Library, 1981. Very well-written and personally challenging introduction to Kierkegaard, though marred by an overly “existentialist” reading at the end.Google Scholar

Poole, Roger. Kierkegaard: The Indirect Communication. Charlottesville, Virgina: University of Virginia Press, 1993. Good example of a “deconstructionist” or “postmodern” reading of Kierkegaard.Google Scholar

Rae, Murray. Kierkegaard's Vision of the Incarnation: By Faith Transformed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Good study of the key Kierkegaardian view of the incarnation as “the Absolute Paradox.”CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Roberts, Robert. Faith, Reason, and History: Rethinking Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1986. A clear treatment, from the perspective of analytic philosophy.Google Scholar

Swenson, David. Something About Kierkegaard. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House, 1941. A classic set of essays by one of the pioneer translators of Kierkegaard in America.Google Scholar

Taylor, Mark C.Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Authorship: A Study of Time and the Self. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1975. Good study of the spheres of existence in their relation to time, except for a misunderstanding of “Religiousness A.”Google Scholar

Walsh, Sylvia. Kierkegaard: Thinking Christianly in an Existential Mode. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Thoughtful introduction to Kierkegaard's theology.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Walsh, Sylvia. Living Christianly: Kierkegaard's Dialectic of Christian Existence. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. Focuses on the “inverse dialectic” in which for Kierkegaard the positive (blessedness, eternal life) is conditioned by the negative (suffering, dying to self).Google Scholar

Walsh, Sylvia. Living Poetically: Kierkegaard's Existential Aesthetics. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. This book deals with more than “the aesthetic” in Kierkegaard by seeing all three of the stages as differing views of what it means to live artistically.Google Scholar

Westphal, Merold. Becoming a Self: A Reading of Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1996. Penetrating study of one of Kierkegaard's most important works. Westphal, who is an established Hegel scholar, relates Kierkegaard to Continental philosophers both of Kierkegaard's time and our own.Google Scholar

Westphal, Merold. Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1987. Fine collection of essays that gives illuminating treatments of Kierkegaard's view of faith and reason and also his political and social thinking.Google Scholar