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Transcendental History defends the claim that historicality is the
very condition for human knowledge. By explaining this thesis, and
by tracing its development from Kant and Hegel to Derrida and
Agamben, this book enriches our understanding of the history of
philosophy and contributes to epistemology and the philosophy of
history.
'Transcendental History' defends the claim that historicality is
the very condition for human knowledge. By explaining this thesis,
and by tracing its development from Kant and Hegel to Derrida and
Agamben, this book enriches our understanding of the history of
philosophy and contributes to epistemology and the philosophy of
history.
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behind nearly as much unpublished writing, most of which consists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completed but unpublished works.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.
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 9 of this 11-volume series
includes five of Kierkegaard's important "NB" journals (Journals
NB26 through NB30), which span from June 1852 to August 1854. This
period was marked by Kierkegaard's increasing preoccupation with
what he saw as an unbridgeable gulf in Christianity--between the
absolute ideal of the religion of the New Testament and the
official, state-sanctioned culture of "Christendom," which,
embodied by the Danish People's Church, Kierkegaard rejected with
increasing vehemence. Crucially, Kierkegaard's nemesis, Bishop
Jakob Peter Mynster, died during this period and, in the months
following, Kierkegaard can be seen moving inexorably toward the
famous "attack on Christendom" with which he ended his life.
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, Part 1, and Volume 11,
Part 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 1, includes
items from his earliest, formative years, through his extensive
studies at the university, and up to the publication of Either/Or.
These materials include Kierkegaard's studies in biblical exegesis;
his reading of theologians such as Schleiermacher and Baader; his
concern with aesthetic matters, including a lengthy consideration
of the Faust legend; his first, trial sermon, delivered at the
Pastoral Seminary; his views on the burgeoning field of political
journalism in the 1830s; and a group of papers he titled "The First
Rudiments of Either/Or. The Green Book. Some Particulars that were
not Used."
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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Kierkegaard and Death (Paperback)
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Few philosophers have devoted such sustained, almost obsessive
attention to the topic of death as Soren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard
and Death brings together new work on Kierkegaard's multifaceted
discussions of death and provides a thorough guide to the
development, in various texts and contexts, of Kierkegaard s ideas
concerning death. Essays by an international group of scholars take
up essential topics such as dying to the world, living death,
immortality, suicide, mortality and subjectivity, death and the
meaning of life, remembrance of the dead, and the question of the
afterlife. While bringing Kierkegaard's philosophy of death into
focus, this volume connects Kierkegaard with important debates in
contemporary philosophy."
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