Introduction. Kierkegaard, hermeneutics, and indirect communication / Alastair Hannay -- Indirect communication and Kierkegaard's transcendental existential perspectivism / Poul Lübcke -- Kierkegaard's leap out of the hermeneutical circle / David Goicoechea -- Edifying hermeneutics : Kierkegaard's existential "method" and its limits / Peter J. Mehl -- A way between freeplay and totality : Kierkegaard on faith and the Other / Christopher Simpson-- Kierkegaard's erotic hermeneutics as a proto-feminist alternative to Hegelian, Nietz[s]chean, and Derridean-deconstructive hermeneutics / Sylvia Walsh -- Kierkegaaard's hermeneutics of discipleship : communal and critical uses of Scripture in the 1854-55 attack / David J. Gouwens -- The existential role of the Holy Spirit in Kierkegaard's biblical hermeneutic / Matthew J. Frawley Anti-Climacus and the "physician of souls" / David D. Possen -- The secret : communication denied, communication of domination / Ettore Rocca -- Indirection and parrhesia : the roles of Socrates' Daimonion and Kierkegaard's Styrelse in communication / William McDonald -- The Socratic method of Kierkegaard's pseudonym Johannes Climacus : Indirect communication and the art of "taking away" / Paul Muench / Kierkegaard and "communication" / John D. Poling -- How is an existence-communication possible / Noel S. Adams -- Between Socrates and Christ : on irony and love in Kierkegaard / Álvaro L.M. Valls --
Conception and concept : the two logics of The concept of irony and the place of Socrates / David Kangas -- A common mistake about Kierkegaard's "The Seducer's diary" / Clancy W. Martin -- The closed self : Kierkegaard and Poul Møller on the hubris of Romantic irony / K. Brian Söderquist -- The hermeneutics of humor in the Postscript / Tonny Aagard Olesen -- Kierkegaard and the classical oratorical tradition / Andrew J. Burgess -- The power of eloquence : on the relation between ethics and rhetoric in preaching / Pia Søltoft -- Going further? : the confessional drama of Fear and trembling / Daniel W. Conway -- Narrative and finitude in Kierkegaard and Ricœur / Vanessa Rumble -- Can history begin in a glance : mutual reflexive recognition in the establishment of human temporality / Edward F. Mooney -- Afterword. Between the word and the words : hermeneutics and communication in Kierkegaard after all? / Poul Houe