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"As a spiritual autobiography, Kierkegaard's The Point of View for My Work as an Author stands with such great works as Augustine's Confessions and Newman's Apologia pro vita sua--but with a difference. It is neither a confessional autobiography nor a defense. It is an author's story of a lifetime of writing, his understanding of the common aim and comprehensive coherence of the maze of his greatly varied pseudonymous and signed works. In an earlier work, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard acknowledged his authorship of the series of pseudonymous works that began with Either/Or. With the imminent publication of the second edition of Either/Or, the pseudonymous series would come full circle, and Kierkegaard again intended to cease writing. Now was the time for a direct ""report to history"" on the authorship as a whole. In addition to the resulting Point of View, which was published posthumously, the present volume also contains the companion pieces Armed Neutrality and On My Work as an Author, a contemporary substitute for the postponed Point of View.Supplementary entries taken from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers document the context and the development of the writings on the authorship as a whole. In addition, they disclose Kierkegaard's considerations as he wrestled with decisions about publishing the three works and other works that were the ""fruit of the year 1848 ...the year of my richest productivity."""

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Author:   Søren Kierkegaard ,  Howard V. Hong ,  Edna H. Hong
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   v. 22
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780691058559

ISBN 10:   0691058555
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   31 May 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780691140803
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Language:   English

Table of Contents

"HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION On My Work as an Author The Accounting APPENDIX My Position as a Religious Author in ""Christendom"" and My Strategy The Point of View for My Work as an Author Introduction Part One A. The Equivocalness or Duplexity in the Whole Authorship, Whether the Author Is an Esthetic or a Religious Author B. The Explanation: That the Author Is and Was a Religious Author Part Two THE AUTHORSHIP VIEWED AS A WHOLE, AND FROM THE POINT OF VIEW THAT THE AUTHOR IS A RELIGIOUS AUTHOR CHAPTER I A. The Esthetic Writing Why the beginning was made with esthetic writing, or what this writing, understood in the totality, signifies 1. ""Christendom"" is an enormous illusion 2. If one is truly to succeed in leading a person to a specific place, one must first and foremost take care to find him where he is and begin there 3. The illusion that religion and Christianity are something to which one turns only when one becomes older 4. Even though a person refuses to go along to the place to which one is endeavoring to lead him, there is still one thing that can be done for him: compel him to become aware 5. All the esthetic writing seen in the totality of the writing is a deception, but understood in a singular way B. Concluding Postscript C. The Religious Writing Conclusion CHAPTER II The Dissimilarity of My Personal Existing Corresponding to the Dissimilar Nature of the Writing A. Personal Existing in Relation to the Esthetic Writing B. Personal Existing in Relation to the Religious Writing CHAPTER III Governance's Part in My Authorship EPILOGUE CONCLUSION SUPPLEMENT ""The Single Individual"" Two ""Notes"" Concerning My Work as an Author Preface No. 1 For the Dedication to ""That Single Individual"" No.2 A Word on the Relation of My Work as an Author to ""The Single Individual"" Postscript Postscript to the ""Two Notes"" Armed Neutrality SUPPLEMENT Key to References Original Title Page of On My Work as an Author Original Title Page of The Point of View for My Work as an Author Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to On My Work as an Author and The Point of View for My Work as an Author First Manuscript Page of Armed Neutrality Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Armed Neutrality EDITORIAL APPENDIX Acknowledgments Collation of On My Work as an Author in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works Collation of The Point of View for My Work as an Author in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works Notes Bibliographical Note Index"

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These new translations are excellent. Choice The definitive edition of the Writings. The first volume ... indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent notes. Library Journal

These new translations are excellent. -- Choice The definitive edition of the Writings. The first volume ... indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent notes. -- Library Journal

Author Information

Howard V. Hong, the former Director of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, is the General Editor of Kierkegaard's Writings. Edna H. Hong is a poet, writer, and translator who has collaborated with Professor Hong on other English translations of Kierkegaard's work.

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