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Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8 - Journals NB21-NB25 (Hardcover)
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Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8 - Journals NB21-NB25 (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behind nearly as much unpublished writing, most of which consists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completed but unpublished works.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 8 of this 11-volume series
includes five of Kierkegaard's important "NB" journals (Journals
NB21 through NB25), which cover the period from September 1850 to
June 1852, and which show Kierkegaard alternately in polemical and
reflective postures. The polemics emerge principally in
Kierkegaard's opposition to the increasing infiltration of
Christianity by worldly concerns, a development that in his view
had accelerated significantly in the aftermath of the political and
social changes wrought by the Revolution of 1848. Kierkegaard
understood the corrupting of Christianity to be in the interest of
the powers that be, and he directed his criticism at politicians,
the press, and especially the Danish Church itself, particularly
church officials who claimed to be "reformers." On the reflective
side, Kierkegaard delves into a number of authors and religious
figures, some of them for the first time, including Montaigne,
Pascal, Seneca, Savonarola, Wesley, and F. W. Newman. These
journals also contain Kierkegaard's thoughts on the decisions
surrounding the publication of the "Anti-Climacus" writings: The
Sickness unto Death and especially Practice in Christianity.
Kierkegaard's reader gets the sense both of a gathering storm--by
the close of the last journal in this volume, the famous "attack on
Christendom" is less than three years away--and a certain
hesitancy: What needs reforming, Kierkegaard insists, is not "the
doctrine" or "the Church," but "existences," i.e., lives.
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