The essays in this volume are inspired by the multi-faceted work of Jon Stewart on the historical context and legacy of Søren Kierkegaard. Following the lead of Stewart, they provide a corrective to readings that treat Kierkegaard's texts and the works of writers influenced by him in abstraction from the specific conversations, disputes, and trends in which they were situated--presenting an interdisciplinary and international engagement with the philosophy, religion, and culture of Golden Age Denmark and Northern Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries and clarify how the immediate intellectual environment in which Kierkegaard's thought evolved contained the seeds of the intellectual dynamics of emergent modernity and post-modernity. Kierkegaard's era has bequeathed to the world the constellation of issues associated with the tension of relativism and absolutism, nihilism and dogmatism, and subjectivism and objectivism, all of which still animate our cultural world.