"Looking at Kierkegaard 'through a Derridean lens,' this wonderful addition to the growing literature on Kierkegaardian ethics argues that Kierkegaard's concerns about the relation between subjectivity and community presage and inform the challenge to closure, totalization, and marginalization that motivates contemporary deconstructive (and liberation) movements. Dooley convincingly shows that Kierkegaard's attention to irony, temporality, risk, and 'repetition' (as re-creating), support the 'political' demand that each generation put in questions 'its most hallowed truths and values.' The ethical dimension of this demand is reinforced by Kierkegaard's insistence on imitation of the suffering and giving Christ-figure. In addition to this provocative analysis of Kierkegaard's writings, this study also provides a much more nuanced view of Derrida's thought than his critics usually allow, and thus offers what is without doubt the best case that can be made for the ethical impulse within Derrida's work." - M. Jamie Ferreira, Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia and author of Love's Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard's Works of Love