Prefaces: Writing Sampler

By Søren Kierkegaard

Book Overview

Prefaces was the last of four books by S ren 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 Although Writing Sampler remained unpublished during his lifetime, it is presented here as Kierkegaard originally envisioned it, in the company of Prefaces.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691140731
• ISBN13: 9780691140735
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"