Placed in dialogue with Buber, Derrida, Freud, Gadamer, Habermas, Heidegger, Irigaray, Kristeva, Levinas, Sartre, and Wittgenstein, Soren Kierkegaard emerges as a vital participant in some of the liveliest controversies in modern philosophy. While some of the essays included here establish Kierkegaard's relevance to the postmodern critique of logocentrism, others emphasize his contributions to critical social theory. Religious issues are often front and center, but several contributors bring their feminist concerns into the dialogue, sometimes with surprising results. Despite the diversity of themes, this collection reflects consensus - Kierkegaard is to be taken seriously as a philosopher at the turn of the twenty-first century. The contributors are: Wanda Warren Berry, Alison Leigh Brown, John D. Caputo, Stephen N. Dunning, C. Stephen Evans, J rgen Habermas, Patricia J. Huntington, Tamsin Lorraine, James L. Marsh, Martin J. Matust'k, William L. McBride, Robert L. Perkins, Robert C. Roberts, Calvin O. Schrag, and Merold Westphal.