Philosophical fragments, Johannes Climacus / by Soren Kierkegaard ; edited and translated with introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Contributor:

Hong, Howard V. (Howard Vincent), 1912-2010.

Hong, Edna H. (Edna Hatlestad), 1913-2007.

Series:

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855. English. 1972 ; Works. 7.

Kierkegaard's writings ; 7

Kierkegaard's Writings

Standardized Title:

Philosophiske smuler. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Philosophy--Denmark.

Philosophy.

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, of two works written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus. Through Climacus, Kierkegaard contrasts the paradoxes of Christianity with Greek and modern philosophical thinking. In Philosophical Fragments he begins with Greek Platonic philosophy, exploring the implications of venturing beyond the Socratic understanding of truth acquired through recollection to the Christian experience of acquiring truth through grace. Published in 1844 and not originally planned to appear under the pseudonym Climacus, the book varies in tone and substance from the other works so attributed, but it is dialectically related to them, as well as to the other pseudonymous writings. The central issue of Johannes Climacus is doubt. Probably written between November 1842 and April 1843 but unfinished and published only posthumously, this book was described by Kierkegaard as an attack on modern speculative philosophy by "means of the melancholy irony, which did not consist in any single utterance on the part of Johannes Climacus but in his whole life. . . . Johannes does what we are told to do--he actually doubts everything--he suffers through all the pain of doing that, becomes cunning, almost acquires a bad conscience. When he has gone as far in that direction as he can go and wants to come back, he cannot do so. . . . Now he despairs, his life is wasted, his youth is spent in these deliberations. Life does not acquire any meaning for him, and all this is the fault of philosophy." A note by Kierkegaard suggests how he might have finished the work: "Doubt is conquered not by the system but by faith, just as it is faith that has brought doubt into the world!."

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

Philosophical Fragments, or A Fragment of Philosophy

PREFACE

I. Thought-Project

II. The God as Teacher and Savior

III. The Absolute Paradox

APPENDIX. Offense at the Paradox

IV. The Situation of the Contemporary Follower

INTERLUDE. Is the Past More Necessary than the Future?

V. The Follower at Second Hand

The Moral

Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est

PLEASE NOTE

INTRODUCTION

PARS PRIMA

I. Modern Philosophy Begins with Doubt

II. Philosophy Begins with Doubt

III. In Order to Philosophize, One Must Have Doubted

PARS SECUNDA

I. What Is It to Doubt?

SUPPLEMENT

EDITORIAL APPENDIX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

Translation of: Philosophiske smuler; and of: Johannes Climacus.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Kierkegaard, Soren, 1813-1855. Johannes Climacus. English. 1985.

ISBN:

9781299456419

1299456413

9781400846962

140084696X

OCLC:

845249359