Kierkegaard: 70 books
Kierkegaard's Writings, XXIII, Volume 23
The Moment and Late Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Kierkegaard, a poet of ideals and practitioner of the indirect method, also had a direct and polemical side. He revealed this in several writings throughout his career, culminating in The Moment, his attack against the established ecclesiastical order.
Kierkegaard was moved to criticize the...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XIII, Volume 13
The Corsair Affair and Articles Related to the Writings
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
The Corsair affair has been called the "most renowned controversy in Danish literary history." At the center is Søren Kierkegaard, whose pseudonymous Stages on Life's Way occasioned a frivolous and dishonorable review by Peder Ludvig Møller. Møller was associated with The Corsair, a publication...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XIV, Volume 14
Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age A Literary Review
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard composed reviews as a means of writing without being an author. Two Ages, here presented in a definitive English text, is simultaneously a review and a book in its own right. In it, Kierkegaard...
by Søren Kierkegaard
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
"Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth."--Søren Kierkegaard
The father of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. With only a sentence or two, he could plumb...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XXV, Volume 25
Letters and Documents
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
This volume provides the first English translation of all the known correspondence to and from Søren Kierkegaard, including a number of his letters in draft form and papers pertaining to his life and death. These fascinating documents offer new access to the character and lifework of the gifted philosopher,...
by Soren Kierkegaard
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Soren Kierkegaard's influence has been felt in many areas of human thought from theology to psychology. The nearly one hundred of his prayers gathered here from published works and private papers, not only illuminate his own life of prayer, but speak to the concerns of Christians today.
The...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XX: Practice in Christianity
Practice in Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Of the many works he wrote during 1848, his "richest and most fruitful year," Kierkegaard specified Practice in Christianity as "the most perfect and truest thing." In his reflections on such topics as Christ's invitation to the burdened, the imitatio Christi, the possibility of...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XV, Volume 15
Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
In his praise for Part I of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, the eminent Kierkegaard scholar Eduard Geismar said, "I am of the opinion that nothing of what he has written is to such a degree before the face of God. Anyone who really wants to understand Kierkegaard does well to begin...
by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Søren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter...
Kierkegaard's Writings, I, Volume 1
Early Polemical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Early Polemical Writings covers the young Kierkegaard's works from 1834 through 1838. His authorship begins, as it was destined to end, with polemic. Kierkegaard's first published article touches on the theme of women's emancipation, and the other articles from his student years deal with freedom...
Kierkegaard's Writings, II: The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates/Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures
The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates/Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
A work that "not only treats of irony but is irony," wrote a contemporary reviewer of The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates. Presented here with Kierkegaard's notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on "positive philosophy" by F.W.J. Schelling, the book is...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XXIV, Volume 24
The Book on Adler
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Kierkegaard was driven to write The Book on Adler after news spread that a Danish pastor, Adolph P. Adler, claimed to have experienced a revelation in which Christ dictated a new doctrine. Like many others, Kierkegaard was intrigued by Adler--but for different reasons than most. Over the eight years...
Kierkegaard's Writings, IX, Volume 9
Prefaces: Writing Sampler
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Prefaces was the last of four books by Søren Kierkegaard to appear within two weeks in June 1844. Three Upbuilding Discourses and Philosophical Fragments were published first, followed by The Concept of Anxiety and its companion--published on the same day--the comically ironic Prefaces. Presented...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XVI: Works of Love
Works of Love
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early Either/Or, through "The Diary of the Seducer" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, on the changelessness of God's love. Works of Love, the midpoint in the series,...