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Recent English Language Scholarship on Kierkegaard’s Upbuilding Discourses

In three months of intensive investigation, I located only two books in English published over the past twenty-five years that are devoted exclusively to S. Kierkegaard's Atten opbyggelige Taler (1843-44) and Tre Taler ved tcenkte Leiligheder (1845), namely, the translations of those same works for the series Kierkegaard's Writings (Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses and Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions, see reviews below). By contrast, a rudimentary title search immediately turned up four books, each, on Kierkegaard's pseudonymous Fear and Trembling (by Johannes de silentio) and Philosophical Fragments (Johannes Climacus) published during the same time period. I did, however, discover five substantial articles on the upbuilding discourses of 1843-45, as well as seven books in which they figure more or less prominently. Before reviewing this literature, I want to dis-