For over a century, the Danish thinker Soren 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 But Kierkegaard left behind nearly as much "unpublished"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partially (or almost entirely) completed but unpublished works.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 5 of this 11-volume series includes five of Kierkegaard's
important "NB" journals (Journals NB6 through NB10), covering the
months from summer 1848 through early May 1849. This was a
turbulent period both in the history of Denmark--which was
experiencing the immediate aftermath of revolution and the fall of
absolutism, a continuing war with the German states, and the
replacement of the State Church with the Danish People's
Church--and for Kierkegaard personally. The journals in the present
volume include Kierkegaard's reactions to the political upheaval, a
retrospective account of his audiences with King Christian VIII,
deliberations about publishing an autobiographical explanation of
his writings, and an increasingly harsh critique of the Danish
Church. These journals also reflect Kierkegaard's deep concern over
his collision with the satirical journal "Corsair," an experience
that helped radicalize his view of "essential Christianity" and
caused him to ponder the meaning of martyrdom.
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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