Kierkegaard and the Danish Golden Age: The Strengths and Limits of Source-Work Research

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Abstract This article offers some personal reflections on the methodology of source-work research based on my experience with the production of Kierkegaard and his Danish Contemporaries, which constitutes volume 7 in the series, Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources. While source-work research is valuable in many cases for understanding Kierkegaard’s texts, I suggest that it does have limitations in the cases of some of Kierkegaard’s relations to his contemporary Danish authors.