This is the most comprehensive anthology of Soren Kierkegaard's
works ever assembled in English. Drawn from the volumes of
Princeton's authoritative "Kierkegaard's Writings" series by
editors Howard and Edna Hong, the selections represent every major
aspect of Kierkegaard's extraordinary career. They reveal the
powerful mix of philosophy, psychology, theology, and literary
criticism that made Kierkegaard one of the most compelling writers
of the nineteenth century and a shaping force in the twentieth.
With an introduction to Kierkegaard's writings as a whole and
explanatory notes for each selection, this is the essential
one-volume guide to a thinker who changed the course of modern
intellectual history.
The anthology begins with Kierkegaard's early journal entries
and traces the development of his work chronologically to the final
"The Changelessness of God." The book presents generous selections
from all of Kierkegaard's landmark works, including "Either/Or,
Fear and Trembling, Works of Love," and "The Sickness unto Death,"
and draws new attention to a host of such lesser-known writings as
"Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions" and "The Lily of the Field
and the Bird of the Air." The selections are carefully chosen to
reflect the unique character of Kierkegaard's work, with its
shifting pseudonyms, its complex dialogues, and its potent
combination of irony, satire, sermon, polemic, humor, and fiction.
We see the esthetic, ethical, and ethical-religious ways of life
initially presented as dialogue in two parallel series of
pseudonymous and signed works and later in the "second authorship"
as direct address. And we see the themes that bind the whole
together, in particular Kierkegaard's overarching concern with, in
his own words, "What it means to exist; . . . what it means to be a
human being."
Together, the selections provide the best available introduction
to Kierkegaard's writings and show more completely than any other
book why his work, in all its creativity, variety, and power,
continues to speak so directly today to so many readers around the
world."
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