THE KIERKEGAARD READER (BLACKWELL READERS) (Wiley Blackwell Readers)

I’m writing this as a comparison to _The Nietzsche Reader_, which is also a part of this series. Frankly, this book lacks much of what the Nietzsche volume contains. The introductions to the short selections of Kierkegaard’s writings simply do not provide much help to the (new) Kierkegaard reader, which wasn’t my experiencing with the Nietzsche volume. Along these lines, the selections for this volume left me scratching my head as to why they were the portions selected. I’ve paired my study of this volume with a number of other resources (journal articles, lectures on Kierkegaard, podcasts), and this volume just doesn’t seem to give much depth to what other resources have offered on Kierkegaard’s work. As of right now, still working my way through, this book feels like an enormous waste of my money. It seems I would have been better off just grabbing the Hongs’ anthology. This book hardly helps one understand Kierkegaard any more than if they just picked up his works and started wrestling through it on their own.