Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology

Christopher B. Barnett is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, USA. He is the author of Kierkegaard, Pietism and Holiness (2011) and From Despair to Faith: The Spirituality of Søren Kierkegaard (2014), and as well as the editor and translator of Kierkegaard: Discourses and Writings on Spirituality (2019), which will be part of the well-known Classics of Western Spirituality series. He is also coeditor of Theology and the Films of Terrence Malick (2016) and Scorsese and Religion (2019).

[Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology] is a welcome contribution to Kierkegaard studies. It opens a new window onto Kierkegaard’s work and, more importantly, proves the value of looking through it.

• Abbreviations for Kierkegaard’s WorksPreface Acknowledgements1. A General History of Technology 2. Technology in Golden Age Denmark 3. Kierkegaard on the Rise of Technological Culture 4. Kierkegaard’s Analysis of Information Technology5. From Hegel to Google: Kierkegaard and the Perils of “the System”6. Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology Concluding (Untechnological?) Postscript Works Cited Index