The influence of the great Danish thinker has been present since the turn of the 19th/20th century, in the works of different thinkers, writers and theologians of the Central Eastern European region, even if with varied intensity. In addition to the German interpretation and often in opposition to it, the representatives of the Russian “Silver Age” theologians were greatly inspired by him, as well as the more scholarly studies on Kierkegaard, from the 1930s on.
As very few thinkers had access to Danish language, the influence of Kierkegaard was – and still is – transmitted by different linguistic (and this way, interpretative) traditions, since systematic and exact translations (with standard terminology, philological and philosophical background) are not a part of the cultural context and often, are still lacking. Any kind of systematic and scholarly Kierkegaard research can be based only on this work. The importance of such undertaking is not only the possibility to get to know Kierkegaard and his thinking better, but may help in revealing his multifaceted influence in different fields and in different areas, from Budapest to Prague, from Zagreb to Warsaw, from Lemberg to Vienna – and on.
The Kierkegaard Cabinet was established to focus, to maintain and to interpret this intellectual tradition.