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unpublished writing, most of which consists of what are called his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(or almost entirely) completed but unpublished works.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 10 of this series includes the final six of
Kierkegaard’s important “NB” journals (Journals NB31 through
NB36), which cover the last months of 1854, a period when Kierkegaard
made the final preparations for and the initial launch of his furious
assault on the established church. But in addition to this incendiary
material, these journals also contain a great trove of his reflections
on theology, philosophy, and the perils and opportunities of
modernity.
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ISBN
9780691184333
Publisert
2018
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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