The Special Messenger: Rediscovering Kierkegaard - Paperbackby Alastair Hannay (Author) Readers often come to know Kierkegaard's work through just one or two of the more widely mentioned of his twenty eight publications. Here the first time reader is offered an introduction to Kierkegaard that situates the texts in a context of the personal circumstances from which they arose. This makes it clear why Kierkegaard was able to conclude not only that writing had been his own education, but that posterity would