Prefaces

Writing Sampler
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-691-14073-5
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band IX, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 333 g

Reihe: Kierkegaard's Writings

Prefaces was the last of four books by Søren Kierkegaard to appear within two weeks in June 1844. Three Upbuilding Discourses and Philosophical Fragments were published first, followed by The Concept of Anxiety and its companion--published on the same day--the comically ironic Prefaces. Presented as a set of prefaces without a book to follow, this work is a satire on literary life in nineteenth-century Copenhagen, a lampoon of Danish Hegelianism, and a prefiguring of Kierkegaard's final collision with Danish Christendom. Shortly after publishing Prefaces, Kierkegaard began to prepare Writing Sampler as a sequel. Writing Sampler considers the same themes taken up in Prefaces but in yet a more ironical and satirical vein. Although Writing Sampler remained unpublished during his lifetime, it is presented here as Kierkegaard originally envisioned it, in the company of Prefaces.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kierkegaard, Søren

Weitere Mitwirkende

Nichol, Todd W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Skandinavische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Existenzphilosophie, Lebensphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION vii

Prefaces 1

PREFACE 3

Preface I 13

Preface II 15

Preface III 22

Preface IV 23

Preface V 27

Preface VI 31

Preface VII 35

Preface VIII 47

Writing Sampler 69

SUPPLEMENT 91

Key to References 92

Original Title Page of Prefaces 94

Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Prefaces 97

Original Manuscript Pages of Writing Sampler 122

Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's journals and Papers Pertaining to Writing Sampler 127

EDITORIAL APPENDIX 165

Acknowledgments 167

Collation of Prefaces in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works 169

Notes 171

Bibliographical Note 199

Index 201

Über Autor(innen)

Todd W. Nichol is Associate Professor of Church History at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota.