The Essential Kierkegaard / Søren Kierkegaard; Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kierkegaard, Søren, author.

Contributor:

Hong, Edna H., editor.

Hong, Howard V., editor.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English. 2000

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (537 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the most comprehensive anthology of Søren Kierkegaard's works ever assembled in English. Drawn from the volumes of Princeton's authoritative Kierkegaard's Writings series by editors Howard and Edna Hong, the selections represent every major aspect of Kierkegaard's extraordinary career. They reveal the powerful mix of philosophy, psychology, theology, and literary criticism that made Kierkegaard one of the most compelling writers of the nineteenth century and a shaping force in the twentieth. With an introduction to Kierkegaard's writings as a whole and explanatory notes for each selection, this is the essential one-volume guide to a thinker who changed the course of modern intellectual history. The anthology begins with Kierkegaard's early journal entries and traces the development of his work chronologically to the final The Changelessness of God. The book presents generous selections from all of Kierkegaard's landmark works, including Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Works of Love, and The Sickness unto Death, and draws new attention to a host of such lesser-known writings as Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions and The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air. The selections are carefully chosen to reflect the unique character of Kierkegaard's work, with its shifting pseudonyms, its complex dialogues, and its potent combination of irony, satire, sermon, polemic, humor, and fiction. We see the esthetic, ethical, and ethical-religious ways of life initially presented as dialogue in two parallel series of pseudonymous and signed works and later in the "second authorship" as direct address. And we see the themes that bind the whole together, in particular Kierkegaard's overarching concern with, in his own words, "What it means to exist; . . . what it means to be a human being.? Together, the selections provide the best available introduction to Kierkegaard's writings and show more completely than any other book why his work, in all its creativity, variety, and power, continues to speak so directly today to so many readers around the world.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Selected Early Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers

From the Papers of One Still Living Published Against His Will (September 7, 1838) / Kjerkegaard, S.

The Concept of Irony, With Continual Reference to Socrates (September 16, 1841) / Kierkegaard, S. A.

Either/Or, a Fragment of Life (February 20, 1843)

Four Upbuilding Discourses (August 31, 1844) / Kierkegaard, S.

Fear and Trembling, Dialectical Lyric (October 16, 1843) / Silentio, Johannes De

Repetition, a Venture in Experimenting Psychology (October 16, 1843) / Constantius, Constantin

Philosophical Fragments, or a Fragment of Philosophy (June 13, 1844) / Climacus, Johannes

Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est (Papirer Iv B 1, 1842-43)

The Concept of Anxiety a Simple Psychological Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin (June 17, 1844) / Haufniensis, Vigilius

Prefaces. Light Reading for People in Various Estates According to Time and Opportunity ( June 17, 1844) / Notabene, Nicolaus

Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions (April 29, 1845) / Kierkegaard, S.

Stages on Life's Way. Studies by Various Persons (April 30, 1845) Compiled, Forwarded to the Press, and Published / Bookbinder, Hilarius

Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments. A Mimical-Patheticaldialectical Compilation, an Existential Contribution (February 28, 1846) / Climacus, Johannes

"The Activity ofaA Traveling Esthetician and How He Still Happened to Pay for the Dinner" (December 27, 1845) / Taciturnus, Frater

Two Ages the Age of Revolution and the Present Age a Literary Review (March 30, 1846) / Kierkegaard, S.

Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits (March 13, 1847) / Kierkegaard, S.

Works of Love (September 29, 1847) / Kierkegaard, S.

Christian Discourses (April 26, 1848) / Kierkegaard, S.

The Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air (May 14, 1849) / Kierkegaard, S.

Two Ethical-Religious Essays (May 19, 1849)

The Sickness Unto Death, a Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening ( July 30, 1849)

Practice in Christianity (September 27, 1850)

Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays (August 7, 1851) / Kierkegaard, S.

For Self-Examination [First Series] Recommended to the Present Age (September 20, 1851) / Kierkegaard, S.

Judge For Yourself! For Self-Examination Recommended to the Present Age Second Series (1851-52, Published 1876) / Kierkegaard, S.

The Book on Adler. The Religious Confusion of the Present Age Illustrated by Magister Adler as a Phenomenon. A Mimical Monograph (1846-55, Published in Efterladte Papirer, II, 1872) / Minor, Petrus

Fædrelandet Articles (December 18, 1854-May 26, 1855) and the Moment, I-Ix, X (May 25-September 24, 1855, 1881)

On My Work as an Author (August 7, 1851) the Point of View for my Work as an Author (Written 1848, Published 1859) / Kierkegaard, S.

The Changelessness of God (September 3, 1855)

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-506) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691033099

0691033099

9781400814008

1400814006

9780691254067

0691254060

9781400847198

1400847192

9781299051492

1299051499

OCLC:

842997514