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date: 06 March 2021

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This chapter analyses Soren Kierkegaard's views about formation of identity and critique of culture. It suggests that the Kierkegaardian notion of culture and formation has a broad range of meanings which include ideas about moral teaching, intellectual training, and existential self-relationship. The chapter also considers deconstructive novels of formation, and the context of Kierkegaard's concept of formation and culture based on his work .

Keywords: Soren Kierkegaard, formation of identity, critique of culture, moral teaching, intellectual training, existential self-relationship, deconstructive novels, Either/Or

Joakim Garff

Joakim Garff is Associate Research Professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen and a co-editor of Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter. He is author of SAK (2000), an award winning biography of Kierkegaard, translated into English as Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2005). From 1992 to 1999 he was Chair of the Danish Kierkegaard Society, and is currently working on Kierkegaard and the concept of culture.

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