The Point of View for My Work as an Author: A Report to History, and Related Writings

By Søren Kierkegaard

Book Overview

As a spiritual autobiography, Kierkegaard's The Point of View for My Work as an Author stands among such great works as Augustine's Confessions and Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua. Yet Point of View is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007DR8HS
• Release Date: January 1962
• Publisher: (Harper torchbooks. The Cloister library)
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The summa of a singularity

This is one of the master's most accessible works. Kierkegaard takes a summary look at his life- work at what he has tried to achieve as a writer. His contention is that from the beginning all his masks and poses, all his ironic gestures were made for one purpose only to waken Christendom to the meaning of what it is to be a true Christian. The life example is the teaching, and the teaching is of an attempt to inwardly relate to God, and live his life as life of total dedication to God. One does not have to be a Christian to be moved by the example, by the great power of mind, by the sense of play with literary forms, by the gift of language, by the originality in thought, and by the unique way of making his own story into literature.