Béla Hamvas is today one of the most widely read Hungarian authors in his country. Long banned in Hungary, his literary and essayistic work has been discovered abroad in recent years. Following the success of "Philosophy of Wine" and "Silentium," we now present "Kierkegaard in Sicily," a selection of his most important essays to a German audience for the first time. The essays collected in this volume revolve around the crisis of universal civilization as identified by Hamvas: "I have gone back from the middle of the last century to the French Revolution, to the Enlightenment, to Rationalism, to Humanism, through the Middle Ages to the Greeks, then to the Hebrews, to the Egyptians. I find the crisis everywhere, but each crisis reveals deeper truths. The dark point is even earlier, much earlier.".