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 But Kierkegaard left behind nearly as much "unpublished"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partially (or almost entirely) completed but unpublished works.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 4 of this 11-volume series includes the first five of
Kierkegaard's well-known "NB" journals, which contain, in addition
to a great many reflections on his own life, a wealth of thoughts
on theological matters, as well as on Kierkegaard's times,
including political developments and the daily press.
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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