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unpublished writing, most of which consists of what are called his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(or almost entirely) completed but unpublished works.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 7 of this 11-volume series includes
six of Kierkegaard's important "NB" journals (Journals NB15 through
NB20), covering the months from early January 1850 to mid-September of
that year. By this time it had become clear that popular sovereignty,
ushered in by the revolution of 1848 and ratified by the Danish
constitution of 1849, had come to stay, and Kierkegaard now
intensified his criticism of the notion that everything, even matters
involving the human soul, could be decided by "balloting." He also
continued to direct his barbs at the established Danish Church and its
clergy (particularly Bishop J. P. Mynster and Professor H. L.
Martensen), at the press, and at the attempt by modern philosophy to
comprehend the incomprehensibility of faith. Kierkegaard's reading
notes include entries on Augustine, the Stoics, German mystics,
Luther, pietist authors, and Rousseau, while his autobiographical
reflections circle around the question of which, if any, of several
essays explaining his life and works he ought to publish. Perhaps
unsurprisingly, Kierkegaard's more personal reflections return once
again to his public feud with M. A. Goldschmidt and his broken
engagement to Regine Olsen. 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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9781400848218
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2015
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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