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Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 5

Journals NB6-NB10

Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 5

Journals NB6-NB10

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£167.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691152189
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 29/01/2012
Width: 19.1 cm
Height: 25.4 cm
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 But Kierkegaard left behind nearly as much unpublished writing, most of which consists of what are called his "journals and notebooks."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galaxies of concepts, new insights, and fragments, large and small, of partially (or almost entirely) completed but unpublished works.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. Volume 5 of this 11-volume series includes five of Kierkegaard's important "NB" journals (Journals NB6 through NB10), covering the months from summer 1848 through early May 1849. This was a turbulent period both in the history of Denmark--which was experiencing the immediate aftermath of revolution and the fall of absolutism, a continuing war with the German states, and the replacement of the State Church with the Danish People's Church--and for Kierkegaard personally. The journals in the present volume include Kierkegaard's reactions to the political upheaval, a retrospective account of his audiences with King Christian VIII, deliberations about publishing an autobiographical explanation of his writings, and an increasingly harsh critique of the Danish Church. These journals also reflect Kierkegaard's deep concern over his collision with the satirical journal Corsair, an experience that helped radicalize his view of "essential Christianity" and caused him to ponder the meaning of martyrdom. 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.
Introduction vii Journal NB6 1 Journal NB7 73 Journal NB8 147 Journal NB9 205 Journal NB10 263 Notes for Journal NB6 387 Notes for Journal NB7 421 Notes for Journal NB8 453 Notes for Journal NB9 483 Notes for Journal NB10 515 Maps 561 Calendar 569 Concordance 575

Søren Kierkegaard, Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay

Bruce H. Kirmmse of Connecticut College (emeritus) and the University of Copenhagen and K. Brian Soderquist of the University of Copenhagen are the general editors of Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, heading up a distinguished editorial board that includes Niels Jorgen Cappelorn, director emeritus of the Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen; Alastair Hannay of the University of Oslo (emeritus); David Kangas of Santa Clara University; George Pattison and Joel D. S. Rasmussen of Oxford University; and Vanessa Rumble of Boston College.

"[A]nyone interested in the serious study of Kierkegaard has reason to be grateful to the editorial board and the Soren Kierkegaard Research Center for undertaking this invaluable project."--Brian Gregor, Philosophy in Review "For all of his lyricism, many of Kierkegaard's works project themselves as an impenetrable fortress of abstractions. These magnificently translated journals are a tunnel beneath the moat of that fortress. They capture the unpackaged and unbuttoned Kierkegaard and thus provide a stimulus to anyone intent on understanding a religious author who could well be reckoned a Luther of Lutheranism."--Gordon Marino, Christian Century "These new critical editions do an excellent job of making Kierkegaard's journals and notebooks available in all their richness."--Brian Gregor, Elizabeth C. Shaw and Staff

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