The Essential Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard

Published by Princeton University Press 2000

The Essential Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard
Edited by: Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400847198

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Howard V. Hong, the former Director of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, is the General Editor of Kierkegaard's Writings. Edna H. Hong is a poet, writer, and translator who has collaborated with Professor Hong on other English translations of Kierkegaard's work.

Reviews

"The crowning achievement of [the Hongs'] monumental translation of all of Kierkegaard's published writings.... A rich and stimulating volume.... A book for everyone with an interest in Kierkegaard, from the first-time reader to the more experienced."—Bruce H. Kirmmse, editor of Encounters with Kierkegaard

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Selected Early Entries from Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
From the Papers of One Still Living Published Against His Will (September 7, 1838) S. Kjerkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
The Concept of Irony, With Continual Reference to Socrates (September 16, 1841) S. A. Kierkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Either/Or, a Fragment of Life (February 20, 1843) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Either/Or, a Fragment of Life (February 20, 1843) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Four Upbuilding Discourses (August 31, 1844) S. Kierkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Fear and Trembling, Dialectical Lyric (October 16, 1843) Johannes De Silentio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Repetition, a Venture in Experimenting Psychology (October 16, 1843) Constantin Constantius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Philosophical Fragments, or a Fragment of Philosophy (June 13, 1844) Johannes Climacus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est (Papirer Iv B 1, 1842–43) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
The Concept of Anxiety a Simple Psychological Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin (June 17, 1844) Vigilius Haufniensis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Prefaces. Light Reading for People in Various Estates According to Time and Opportunity ( June 17, 1844) Nicolaus Notabene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions (April 29, 1845) S. Kierkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Stages on Life’s Way. Studies by Various Persons (April 30, 1845) Compiled, Forwarded to the Press, and Published Hilarius Bookbinder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments. A Mimical-Patheticaldialectical Compilation, an Existential Contribution (February 28, 1846) Johannes Climacus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
“The Activity ofaA Traveling Esthetician and How He Still Happened to Pay for the Dinner” (December 27, 1845) Frater Taciturnus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Two Ages the Age of Revolution and the Present Age a Literary Review (March 30, 1846) S. Kierkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits (March 13, 1847) S. Kierkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Works of Love (September 29, 1847) S. Kierkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Christian Discourses (April 26, 1848) S. Kierkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
The Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air (May 14, 1849) S. Kierkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Two Ethical-Religious Essays (May 19, 1849) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
The Sickness Unto Death, a Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening ( July 30, 1849) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
Practice in Christianity (September 27, 1850) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays (August 7, 1851) S. Kierkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
For Self-Examination [First Series] Recommended to the Present Age (September 20, 1851) S. Kierkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
Judge For Yourself! For Self-Examination Recommended to the Present Age Second Series (1851–52, Published 1876) S. Kierkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	404
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) Petrus Minor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
Fædrelandet Articles (December 18, 1854–May 26, 1855) and the Moment, I–Ix, X (May 25–September 24, 1855, 1881) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	424
On My Work as an Author (August 7, 1851) the Point of View for my Work as an Author (Written 1848, Published 1859) S. Kierkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
The Changelessness of God (September 3, 1855) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	482
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	493
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507

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