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.