Kierkegaard's Writings, IX, Volume 9: Prefaces: Writing Sampler

Søren Kierkegaard

Published by Princeton University Press 1998

Kierkegaard's Writings, IX, Volume 9

Prefaces: Writing Sampler

Søren Kierkegaard
Edited by: Todd W. Nichol
With contributions by: Todd W. Nichol and Todd W. Nichol

Volume 71 in the series Kierkegaard's Writings

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400832378

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About this book

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 as a set of prefaces without a book to follow, this work is a satire on literary life in nineteenth-century Copenhagen, a lampoon of Danish Hegelianism, and a prefiguring of Kierkegaard's final collision with Danish Christendom.

Shortly after publishing Prefaces, Kierkegaard began to prepare Writing Sampler as a sequel. Writing Sampler considers the same themes taken up in Prefaces but in yet a more ironical and satirical vein. Although Writing Sampler remained unpublished during his lifetime, it is presented here as Kierkegaard originally envisioned it, in the company of Prefaces.

Author / Editor information

Todd W. Nichol is Associate Professor of Church History at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Reviews

These new translations are excellent.

The definitive edition of the Writings. The first volume . . . indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent notes.

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Prefaces
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