For over a century, the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55)
has been at the center of a number of important discussions,
concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, more recently,
fields such as social thought, psychology, and contemporary
aesthetics, especially literary theory. Despite his relatively short
life, Kierkegaard was an extraordinarily prolific writer, as attested
to by the 26-volume Princeton University Press edition of all of his
published writings. But Kierkegaard left behind nearly as much
unpublished writing, most of which consists of what are called his
"journals and notebooks." Kierkegaard has long been recognized as one
of history's great journal keepers, but only rather small portions of
his journals and notebooks are what we usually understand by the term
"diaries." By far the greater part of Kierkegaard's journals and
notebooks consists of reflections on a myriad of
subjects--philosophical, religious, political, personal. Studying his
journals and notebooks takes us into his workshop, where we can see
his entire universe of thought. We can witness the genesis of his
published works, to be sure--but we can also see whole galaxies of
concepts, new insights, and fragments, large and small, of partially
(or almost entirely) completed but unpublished works. Kierkegaard's
Journals and Notebooks enables us to see the thinker in dialogue with
his times and with himself. Volume 4 of this 11-volume series includes
the first five of Kierkegaard's well-known "NB" journals, which
contain, in addition to a great many reflections on his own life, a
wealth of thoughts on theological matters, as well as on Kierkegaard's
times, including political developments and the daily press.
Kierkegaard wrote his journals in a two-column format, one for his
initial entries and the second for the extensive marginal comments
that he added later. This edition of the journals reproduces this
format, includes several photographs of original manuscript pages, and
contains extensive scholarly commentary on the various entries and on
the history of the manuscripts being reproduced.
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ISBN
9781400840236
Publisert
2016
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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