Prefaces/Writing Sampler (Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 9)

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 Although Writing Sampler remained unpublished during his lifetime, it is presented here as Kierkegaard originally envisioned it, in the company of Prefaces .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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691048274
• ISBN13: 9780691048277
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.8"