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date: 02 March 2021

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This chapter examines Soren Kierkegaard's view about the concept of love. It suggests that Kierkegaard's ideas about love can be found in , which contains a series of deliberations on the Judeo-Christian commandment to love one's neighbour as oneself. The chapter also discusses episodes of the story of human love in Kierkegaard's earlier works, his , , and . It also argues that Kierkegaard's philosophical, literary, and theological explorations reveal that love is filled with paradox.

Keywords: Soren Kierkegaard, love, Works of Love, Judeo-Christian commandment, love one's neighbour, Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments

M. Jamie Ferreira

M. Jamie Ferreira is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Kierkegaard: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2009), Love's Grateful Striving (Oxford University Press, 2001), and Transforming Vision: Will and Imagination in Kierkegaardian Faith (Oxford University Press, 1991), as well as numerous articles on religious epistemology and modern religious thought.

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