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unpublished writing, most of which consists of what are called his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(or almost entirely) completed but unpublished works.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 6 of this 11-volume series includes
four of Kierkegaard's important "NB" journals (Journals NB11 through
NB14), covering the months from early May 1849 to the beginning of
1850. At this time Denmark was coming to terms with the 1848
revolution that had replaced absolutism with popular sovereignty,
while the war with the German states continued, and the country
pondered exactly what replacing the old State Church with the Danish
People's Church would mean. In these journals Kierkegaard reflects at
length on political and, especially, on ecclesiastical developments.
His brooding over the ongoing effects of his fight with the satirical
journal Corsair continues, and he also examines and re-examines the
broader personal and religious significance of his broken engagement
with Regine Olsen. These journals also contain reflections by
Kierkegaard on a number of his most important works, including the two
works written under his "new" pseudonym Anti-Climacus (The Sickness
unto Death and Practice in Christianity) and his various attempts at
autobiographical explanations of his work. And, all the while, the
drumbeat of his radical critique of "Christendom" continues and
escalates. 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
9781400845330
Publisert
2016
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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