Kierkegaard's Writings, IX - Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855 (Princeton University Press, 2009)
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Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION; Prefaces; PREFACE; Preface I; Preface II; Preface III; Preface IV; Preface V; Preface VI; Preface VII; Preface VIII; Writing Sampler; SUPPLEMENT; Key to References; Original Title Page of Prefaces; Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Prefaces; Original Manuscript Pages of Writing Sampler; Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Writing Sampler; EDITORIAL APPENDIX; Acknowledgments; Collation of Prefaces in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works; Notes
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 be
Includes bibliographical references and index