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Point Of View

by Soren Kierkegaard

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 Presents the author's story of a lifetime of writing and his understanding of the maze of greatly varied works that make up his oeuvre.
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Corsair Affair And Articles Related To The Writings

by Soren Kierkegaard

55,65€ + 10% CARD

 "The Corsair Affair" has been called the 'most renowned controversy in Danish literary history'. This volume contains the documents relevant to this dispute, and a historical introduction that recapitulates the sequence of events surrounding the controversy.
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Upbuilding Discourses In Various Spirits

by Soren Kierkegaard

55,65€ + 10% CARD

 Offers a discussion of double-mindedness and ethical integrity. This work shows an inverted qualitative difference between the learner and the teacher. It explores how joy can come out of suffering.
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Cumulative Index To Kierkegaard'S Writings

82,15€ + 10% CARD

 Offers access to Kierkegaard's complex authorship and the extraordinary range of subjects he addressed in his writing. Covering the series' historical introductions, primary works, supplementary material (journal entries), and footnotes, this work provides a comprehensive entryway to more than 11,000 pages of text.
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Early Polemical Writings

by Soren Kierkegaard

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 Kierkegaard's 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 of the press. This work covers the young Kierkegaard's works from 1834 through 1838.
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Two Ages: The Age Of Revolution And The Present Age A Literary Review

by Soren Kierkegaard

39,75€ + 10% CARD

 After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous "Concluding Unscientific Postscript", Kierkegaard composed reviews as a means of writing without being an author. This work comments on the Danish novel "Two Ages", which contrasts the mentality of the age of the French Revolution with that of the subsequent epoch of rationalism.
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Moment And Late Writings

by Soren Kierkegaard

82,15€ + 10% CARD

 Kierkegaard, a poet of ideals and practitioner of the indirect method, also had a direct and polemical side. This title includes the articles from Fadrelandet, all numbers of "The Moment", and several other late pieces of Kierkegaard's writing.
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Book On Adler

by Soren Kierkegaard

68,90€ + 10% CARD

 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. This volume includes an integral version of "The Book on Adler", along with excerpts from the earlier drafts and a sampling of writing by Adler himself.
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Christian Discourses: The Crisis And A Crisis In The Life Of An Actress.

by Soren Kierkegaard

68,90€ + 10% CARD

 Combines simplicity and inwardness with reflection and presents crucial Christian concepts and presuppositions.
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Prefaces: Writing Sampler

by Soren Kierkegaard

53,00€ + 10% CARD

 "Prefaces" was the last of four books by Soren Kierkegaard to appear within two weeks in June 1844. Shortly after publishing "Prefaces", Kierkegaard began to prepare "Writing Sampler" as a sequel. Although "Writing Sampler" remained unpublished during his lifetime, this title presents it here as Kierkegaard originally envisioned it.
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Without Authority

by Soren Kierkegaard

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 A volume of five short works that in various ways deals with the concept and practice of authority, including: "Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays" (1849), "An Upbuilding Discourse" (1850), and "Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays" (1851).
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Three Discourses On Imagined Occasions

by Soren Kierkegaard

39,75€ + 10% CARD

 Includes the last of seven works signed by the author. This title both complements and stands in contrast to the author's pseudonymously published "Stages on Life's Way".
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Letters And Documents

by Soren Kierkegaard

108,65€ + 10% CARD

 Provides an English translation of all the known correspondence to and from Soren Kierkegaard, including a number of his letters in draft form and papers pertaining to his life and death. This work offers access to the character and lifework of the gifted philosopher, theologian, and psychologist.
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For Self-Examination / Judge For Yourself!

by Soren Kierkegaard

55,65€ + 10% CARD

 For Self-Examination and its companion piece Judge for Yourself! are the culmination of Søren Kierkegaard''s "second authorship," which followed his Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Among the simplest and most readily comprehended of Kierkegaard''s books, the two works are part of the signed direct communications, as distinguished from his earlier pseudonymous writings. The lucidity and pithiness, and the earnestness and power, of For Self-Examination and Judge for Yourself! are enhanced when, as Kierkegaard requested, they are read aloud. They contain the well-known passages on Socrates'' defense speech, how to read, the lover''s letter, the royal coachman and the carriage team, and the painter''s relation to his painting. The aim of awakening and inward deepening is signaled by the opening section on Socrates in For Self-Examination and is pursued in the context of the relations of Christian ideality, grace, and response. The secondary aim, a critique of the established order, links the works to the final polemical writings that appear later after a four-year period of silence.
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Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses

by Soren Kierkegaard

68,90€ + 10% CARD

 There is much to be learned philosophically from this volume, but philosophical instruction was not Kierkegaard''s aim here, except in the broad sense of self-knowledge and deepened awareness. Indicating the intention of the discourses, the titles include "The Expectancy of Faith," "Love Will Hide a Multitude of Sins," "Strengthening in the Inner Being," "To Gain One''s Soul in Patience," "Patience in Expectancy," and "Against Cowardliness." In tone and substance these works are in accord with the concluding words of encouragement in Either/Or, which was paired with the first volume of discourses: "Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it--and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart''s indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you--for only the truth that builds up is truth for you."
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Works Of Love

by Soren Kierkegaard

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 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. This work presents an analysis of the forms and sources of love.
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Concluding Unscientific Postscript To Philosophical Fragments - Volume Ii

by Soren Kierkegaard

63,60€ + 10% CARD

 In Philosophical Fragments the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus explored the question: What is required in order to go beyond Socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner? Written as an afterword to this work, Concluding Unscientific Postscript is on one level a philosophical jest, yet on another it is Climacus''s characterization of the subjective thinker''s relation to the truth of Christianity. At once ironic, humorous, and polemical, this work takes on the "unscientific" form of a mimical-pathetical-dialectical compilation of ideas. Whereas the movement in the earlier pseudonymous writings is away from the aesthetic, the movement in Postscript is away from speculative thought. Kierkegaard intended Postscript to be his concluding work as an author. The subsequent "second authorship" after The Corsair Affair made Postscript the turning point in the entire authorship. Part One of the text volume examines the truth of Christianity as an objective issue, Part Two the subjective issue of what is involved for the individual in becoming a Christian, and the volume ends with an addendum in which Kierkegaard acknowledges and explains his relation to the pseudonymous authors and their writings. The second volume contains the scholarly apparatus, including a key to references and selected entries from Kierkegaard''s journals and papers.
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Concluding Unscientific Postscript To Philosophical Fragments - Volume I

by Soren Kierkegaard

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 In Philosophical Fragments the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus explored the question: What is required in order to go beyond Socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner? Written as an afterword to this work, Concluding Unscientific Postscript is on one level a philosophical jest, yet on another it is Climacus''s characterization of the subjective thinker''s relation to the truth of Christianity. At once ironic, humorous, and polemical, this work takes on the "unscientific" form of a mimical-pathetical-dialectical compilation of ideas. Whereas the movement in the earlier pseudonymous writings is away from the aesthetic, the movement in Postscript is away from speculative thought. Kierkegaard intended Postscript to be his concluding work as an author. The subsequent "second authorship" after The Corsair Affair made Postscript the turning point in the entire authorship. Part One of the text volume examines the truth of Christianity as an objective issue, Part Two the subjective issue of what is involved for the individual in becoming a Christian, and the volume ends with an addendum in which Kierkegaard acknowledges and explains his relation to the pseudonymous authors and their writings. The second volume contains the scholarly apparatus, including a key to references and selected entries from Kierkegaard''s journals and papers.
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Practice In Christianity

by Soren Kierkegaard

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 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 offense, and the exalted Christ, he takes as his theme the requirement of Christian ideality in the context of divine grace. Addressing clergy and laity alike, Kierkegaard asserts the need for institutional and personal admission of the accommodation of Christianity to the culture and to the individual misuse of grace. As a corrective defense, the book is an attempt to find, ideally, a basis for the established order, which would involve the order''s ability to acknowledge the Christian requirement, confess its own distance from it, and resort to grace for support in its continued existence. At the same time the book can be read as the beginning of Kierkegaard''s attack on Christendom. Because of the high ideality of the contents and in order to prevent the misunderstanding that he himself represented that ideality, Kierkegaard writes under a new pseudonym, Anti-Climacus.
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Concept Of Irony, With Continual Reference To Socrates/Notes Of Schelling'S Berlin Lectures

by Soren Kierkegaard

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 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 a seedbed of Kierkegaard''s subsequent work, both stylistically and thematically. Part One concentrates on Socrates, the master ironist, as interpreted by Xenophon, Plato, and Aristophanes, with a word on Hegel and Hegelian categories. Part Two is a more synoptic discussion of the concept of irony in Kierkegaard''s categories, with examples from other philosophers and with particular attention given to A. W. Schlegel''s novel Lucinde as an epitome of romantic irony. The Concept of Irony and the Notes of Schelling''s Berlin Lectures belong to the momentous year 1841, which included not only the completion of Kierkegaard''s university work and his sojourn in Berlin, but also the end of his engagement to Regine Olsen and the initial writing of Either/Or.
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Stages On Life'S Way

by Soren Kierkegaard

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 Stages on Life''s Way, the sequel to Either/Or, is an intensely poetic example of Kierkegaard''s vision of the three stages, or spheres, of existence: the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious. With characteristic love for mystification, he presents the work as a bundle of documents fallen by chance into the hands of "Hilarius Bookbinder," who prepared them for printing. The book begins with a banquet scene patterned on Plato''s Symposium. (George Brandes maintained that "one must recognize with amazement that it holds its own in this comparison.") Next is a discourse by "Judge William" in praise of marriage "in answer to objections." The remainder of the volume, almost two-thirds of the whole, is the diary of a young man, discovered by "Frater Taciturnus," who was deeply in love but felt compelled to break his engagement. The work closes with a letter to the reader from Taciturnus on the three "existence-spheres" represented by the three parts of the book. Stages on Life''s Way not only repeats themes, characters, and pseudonymous authors of the earlier works but also goes beyond them and points to further development of central ideas in Concluding Unscientific Postscript. ?
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Either/Or, Part Ii

by Soren Kierkegaard

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 Søren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had published two earlier works on Hans Christian Andersen and irony. The pseudonymous volumes of Either/Or are the writings of a young man (I) and of Judge William (II). The ironical young man''s papers include a collection of sardonic aphorisms; essays on Mozart, modern drama, and boredom; and "The Seducer''s Diary." The seeming miscellany is a reflective presentation of aspects of the "either," the esthetic view of life. Part II is an older friend''s "or," the ethical life of integrated, authentic personhood, elaborated in discussions of personal becoming and of marriage. The resolution of the "either/or" is left to the reader, for there is no Part III until the appearance of Stages on Life''s Way. The poetic-reflective creations of a master stylist and imaginative impersonator, the two men write in distinctive ways appropriate to their respective positions.
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Either/Or, Part I

by Soren Kierkegaard

55,65€ + 10% CARD

 Søren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had published two earlier works on Hans Christian Andersen and irony. The pseudonymous volumes of Either/Or are the writings of a young man (I) and of Judge William (II). The ironical young man''s papers include a collection of sardonic aphorisms; essays on Mozart, modern drama, and boredom; and "The Seducer''s Diary." The seeming miscellany is a reflective presentation of aspects of the "either," the esthetic view of life. Part II is an older friend''s "or," the ethical life of integrated, authentic personhood, elaborated in discussions of personal becoming and of marriage. The resolution of the "either/or" is left to the reader, for there is no Part III until the appearance of Stages on Life''s Way. The poetic-reflective creations of a master stylist and imaginative impersonator, the two men write in distinctive ways appropriate to their respective positions.
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Philosophical Fragments, Or A Fragment Of Philosophy/Johannes Climacus, Or De Omnibus Dubitandum Est. (Two Books In One Volume)

by Soren Kierkegaard

50,35€ + 10% CARD

 This volume contains a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, of two works written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus. Through Climacus, Kierkegaard contrasts the paradoxes of Christianity with Greek and modern philosophical thinking. In Philosophical Fragments he begins with Greek Platonic philosophy, exploring the implications of venturing beyond the Socratic understanding of truth acquired through recollection to the Christian experience of acquiring truth through grace. Published in 1844 and not originally planned to appear under the pseudonym Climacus, the book varies in tone and substance from the other works so attributed, but it is dialectically related to them, as well as to the other pseudonymous writings. The central issue of Johannes Climacus is doubt. Probably written between November 1842 and April 1843 but unfinished and published only posthumously, this book was described by Kierkegaard as an attack on modern speculative philosophy by "means of the melancholy irony, which did not consist in any single utterance on the part of Johannes Climacus but in his whole life. . . . Johannes does what we are told to do--he actually doubts everything--he suffers through all the pain of doing that, becomes cunning, almost acquires a bad conscience. When he has gone as far in that direction as he can go and wants to come back, he cannot do so. . . . Now he despairs, his life is wasted, his youth is spent in these deliberations. Life does not acquire any meaning for him, and all this is the fault of philosophy." A note by Kierkegaard suggests how he might have finished the work: "Doubt is conquered not by the system but by faith, just as it is faith that has brought doubt into the world!."
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