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unpublished writing, most of which consists of what are called his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(or almost entirely) completed but unpublished works.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. 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. Volume 9 of this 11-volume series includes five of
Kierkegaard’s important “NB” journals (Journals NB26 through
NB30), which span from June 1852 to August 1854. This period was
marked by Kierkegaard’s increasing preoccupation with what he saw as
an unbridgeable gulf in Christianity—between the absolute ideal of
the religion of the New Testament and the official, state-sanctioned
culture of “Christendom,” which, embodied by the Danish People’s
Church, Kierkegaard rejected with increasing vehemence. Crucially,
Kierkegaard’s nemesis, Bishop Jakob Peter Mynster, died during this
period and, in the months following, Kierkegaard can be seen moving
inexorably toward the famous “attack on Christendom” with which he
ended his life.
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9781400883752
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2017
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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