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Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 11, Part 2 - Loose Papers, 1843-1855 (Hardcover)
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Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 11, Part 2 - Loose Papers, 1843-1855 (Hardcover)
Series: Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks
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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behind nearly as much unpublished writing, most of which consists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completed but unpublished works.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. 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 11, Parts 1 and 2, present an
exciting, enlightening, and enormously varied treasure trove of
papers that were found, carefully sorted and stored by Kierkegaard
himself, in his apartment after his death. These papers-many of
which have never before been published in English-provide a window
into many different aspects of Kierkegaard's life and creativity.
Volume 11, Part 2, includes writings from the period between 1843,
the year in which he published his breakthrough Either/Or, and late
September 1855, a few weeks before his death, when he recorded his
final reflections on "Christendom." Among the highlights are
Kierkegaard's famous description of the "Great Earthquake" that
shaped his life; his early reflections on becoming an author; his
important, though never-delivered, lectures on "The Dialectic of
Ethical and Ethical-Religious Communication"; and his final,
incandescent assault on the tendency-new in his time-to harness
Christianity in support of a specific social and political order.
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