Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-283) and index.

Introduction: A Socratic and Christian care for the self / Edward F. Mooney -- Commitment, personality, and identity -- Kierkegaard on the self / Hubert L. Dreyfus -- Affectation, or the invention of the self : a modern disorder / Bruce H. Kirmmse -- Postscript ethics : putting personality on stage / Edward F. Mooney -- Kierkegaard on commitment, personality, and identity / Alastair Hannay -- Natural and commanded love -- Love and the discipline of philosophy / Rick Anthony Furtak -- Kierkegaard and ethical theory / Robert C. Roberts -- "The problematic agapeistic ideal--again" / M. Jamie Ferreira -- Kierkegaard on natural and commanded love / Alastair Hannay -- Melancholy and despair -- Despair and depression / Gordon Marino -- Spleen essentially canceled--yet a little spleen retained / N.J. Cappel ; translated by K. Brian Söderquist -- Kierkegaard on melancholy and despair / Alastair Hannay -- Trust, faith, and reason -- Philosophy and dogma : the testimony of an upbuilding discourse / George Pattison -- The dangers of indirection : Plato, Kierkegaard, and Leo Strauss / M.G. Piety -- Abraham's final word / Daniel W. Conway -- Faith as eschatological trust in Fear and trembling / John J. Davenport -- Silence and entering the circle of faith / Alastair Hannay.

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