After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous
Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard composed reviews as a
means of writing without being an author. Two Ages, here presented in
a definitive English text, is simultaneously a review and a book in
its own right. In it, Kierkegaard comments on the anonymously
published Danish novel Two Ages, which contrasts the mentality of the
age of the French Revolution with that of the subsequent epoch of
rationalism. Kierkegaard commends the author's shrewdness, and his
critique builds on the novel's view of the two generations. With keen
prophetic insight, Kierkegaard foresees the birth of an impersonal
cultural wasteland, in which the individual will either be
depersonalized or obliged to find an existence rooted in "equality
before God and equality with all men." This edition, like all in the
series, contains substantial supplementary material, including a
historical introduction, entries from Kierkegaard's journals and
papers, and the preface and conclusion of the original novel.
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ISBN
9781400832286
Publisert
2015
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Vendor
Princeton University Press
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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