Abstract
Kierkegaard and his various pseudonymous authors' maieutic, poetic, prolix, ironic, enigmatic, desultory, highly personal writing styles do not lend themselves well to standard philosophical scrutiny--at least as adjudged by somewhat mainstream Anglo-American criteria. Often herculean, hermeneutical effort is required to just comprehend Kierkegaard, because argument forms in his writings are not transparent, awaiting only the test of counterexamples or inference-rules. Nonetheless, ratiocination is present, however opaquely, opening up the scholarly danger of what Kierkegaard called the reader's grasping with his right hand what is held in the author's left hand.