While the concept of place remains undertheorized in Kierkegaard research, this study argues that place is at the center of Kierkegaards thinking. The first part of the book shows that Kierkegaards notion of situatedness as being-placed in a socio-historical situation conditioned by a situation prior to situatedness points to a realist position and a flat ontology. Secondly, the book develops a detailed analysis of the ontological structure of the existential place (the place we ourselves are) and concrete places (the places where we are). Place opens a qualified space within bounds (the existence-sphere), an atmosphere of elemental attunement and attuned elementality. Finally, the book collects the dots from part one and two in a topological realist approach to Kierkegaards theology and three main definitions of God: God is love, God is that everything is possible, and God is the middle term. The book concludes that Kierkegaards existential topography reveals a realist position: where we are is never exhausted by being the place where we are.

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Niels Wilde, Aarhus University, Denmark.