In Philosophical Fragments the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus
explored the question: What is required in order to go beyond Socratic
recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner?
Written as an afterword to this work, Concluding Unscientific
Postscript is on one level a philosophical jest, yet on another it is
Climacus's characterization of the subjective thinker's relation to
the truth of Christianity. At once ironic, humorous, and polemical,
this work takes on the "unscientific" form of a
mimical-pathetical-dialectical compilation of ideas. Whereas the
movement in the earlier pseudonymous writings is away from the
aesthetic, the movement in Postscript is away from speculative
thought. Kierkegaard intended Postscript to be his concluding work as
an author. The subsequent "second authorship" after The Corsair Affair
made Postscript the turning point in the entire authorship. Part One
of the text volume examines the truth of Christianity as an objective
issue, Part Two the subjective issue of what is involved for the
individual in becoming a Christian, and the volume ends with an
addendum in which Kierkegaard acknowledges and explains his relation
to the pseudonymous authors and their writings. The second volume
contains the scholarly apparatus, including a key to references and
selected entries from Kierkegaard's journals and papers.
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9781400847006
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2013
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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