Kierkegaard Is Standing by Himself – Through Hegel's Help. The Notion of Sacrifice in Kierkegaard's Works of Love

In the last few years, Kierkegaard’s text Works of Love has become an object of increased attention. Considered for a long time mainly as a religious text, this work is now being considered as a proper philosophical text worthy of in-depth consideration. Taking recent scholarship into account, I aim to analyse the inter-related notions of sacrifice and kenotic love, which effectively represent the thematic core of Works of Love. I intend to pursue this analysis in the context of a broader thesis: that Kierkegaard is a distinctively post-Kantian philosopher, namely, a philosopher who goes beyond Kant in a way that is nevertheless true to the spirit of Kant’s original critical idealism.