by Benjamin Daise

The thesis for which this book offers support is Kierkegaard's claim that he was a midwife for Christendom. The idea of midwifery is to develop the author's means of an analysis of portions of Plato's Meno. That analysis leads to sensitivity in decisions about ascribing views articulated in the texts that are considered–primarily Philosophical Fragments–to Kierkegaard or to his pseudonyms.

Consequently, Daise offers detailed textual analysis of the questions that are explicitly addressed in Philosophical Fragments, in order to show that what are ostensibly traditional metaphysical and epistemological issues are not those kinds of questions at all and that the formulation of the questions is demanded by the jaieutic requirements of the environment in which Kierkegaard wrote.

Benjamin Daise is professor of philosophy at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

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