Prefaces: Writing Sampler (Kierkegaard's Writings, 9) - Hardcover

Kierkegaard, Søren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691048274 ISBN 13: 9780691048277

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1998

Synopsis

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 Although Writing Sampler remained unpublished during his lifetime, it is presented here as Kierkegaard originally envisioned it, in the company of Prefaces.

About this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691048274
• ISBN 13: 9780691048277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Nichol Todd W.