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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
1813-1855 |
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Although Kierkegaard's writing covers a wide range of topics and interests, he is most known for his intensely personal, though highly theoretical retrieval of the problems of human freedom, self-determination and religious faith. His treatment of such topics was unique for the 19th Century, at least until the advent of Nietzsche's thought which comes much later toward the end of the century. In reaction to the prevailing Hegelian climate, Kierkegaard confronts an idealism that he believed had lost touch with the reality of the human condition, a reality fraught with unanswerable questions, impossible decisions, confusing emotions and dreadful uncertainties. Kierkegaard forces us to entertain the possibility that, perhaps the onto-metaphysical foundations of the world are without reason, that God and his plan for the world make no objective sense at all, that perhaps the world is in reality, absurd...
If the world is absurd, what do we, as self-determining agents, do about it?
Not surprisingly, Kierkegaard's personal confrontation with such questions brings his writings passionately into the religious realm, but unlike the Hegelian Idealism of his time, based upon personal experience, Kierkegaard's philosophical approach abandons traditional, academic, disembodied attempts to give so-called objective, logical proofs for the existence of God, or rational justifications for the way the world is. Rather, Kierkegaard attempts to develop a type of living faith that commits to and embraces the actuality of an ultimate unknowing.
What is striking about Kierkegaard's work is its autobiographical nature. As many of the titles suggest, the driving force behind Kierkegaard's philosophical investigations was his own, personal confrontations with the human predicament.
Between 1834 and 1835, Søren writes in his notebook:
"What I really need is to come to terms with myself about what I am to do, not about what I am to know, except insomuch as knowledge must precede every act. It is a matter of understanding my destiny, of seeing what the Divinity actually wants me to do; what counts is to find a truth, which is true for me, to find that idea for which I will live and die."
Such an impassioned response to basic metaphysical questions (Why?) becomes the groundwork for an entire tradition of philosophy called Existentialism, a tradition as romantic as it is desparate.
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Kierkegaard's Writings |
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From Princeton University Press, Kierkegaard's Writings is a definitive,
systematically translated, scholarly edition of Søren Kierkegaard's works in
English, comprising twenty-five volumes of text and a separate cumulative index.
Each volume includes a historical introduction, selections from Kierkegaard's
journals and provisional manuscripts, notes and an index.
- I.
Early Polemical Writings. S Kierkegaard, Julia
Watkin, ed. and trans.
- II.
The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates/Notes of
Schelling's Berlin Lectures. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds.
and trans.
- III.
Either/Or. Part I. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- IV.
Either/Or: Part II. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- V.
Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong,
eds. and trans.
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Fear and Trembling/Repetition. S. Kierkegaard; E.H. Hong and H.V. Hong, eds.
and trans.
- VII.
Philosophical Fragments, or a Fragment of Philosophy/Johannes Climacus, or
De omnibus dubitandum est. (Two books in one volume). S. Kierkegaard; E.H.
Hong and H.V. Hong, eds. and trans.
- VIII.
Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the
Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin. S. Kierkegaard; R. Thomte, ed. and trans.
- IX.
Prefaces: Writing Sampler. S. Kierkegaard; T. Nichols, ed. and trans.
- X.
Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions. S. Kierkegaard; R. Gibbs and E.H.
Hong, eds. and trans.
- XI.
Stages on Life's Way. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and
trans.
- XII.
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume I. S.
Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XII.
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume II. S.
Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XII.
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments. (Two Volume
Set). S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XIII.
The Corsair Affair. S. Kierkegaard, E. Hong and H.
V. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XIV.
Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age: A Literary Review. S.
Kierkegaard; E.H. Hong and H.V. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XV.
Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H.
Hong, eds. and trans.
- XVI.
Works of Love. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XVII.
Christian Discourses: The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress. S.
Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XVIII.
Without Authority. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XIX.
Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and
Awakening. S. Kierkegaard; E.H. Hong and H.V. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XX.
Practice in Christianity. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and
trans.
- XXI.
For Self-Examination / Judge For Yourself!. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and
E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XXII.
The Point of View. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XXIII.
The Moment and Late Writings. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H.
Hong, eds. and trans.
- XXIV.
The Book on Adler. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XXV.
Letters and Documents. S. Kierkegaard; H. Rosenmeier, ed. and trans.
- XXVI.
Cumulative Index. H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds.
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This website is an online Commentary on the writings of the nineteenth century existentialist philosopher Søren Aabye Kierkegaard. Information on every published work and article, including many unfinished writings and journal entries, are presented here with publication data, quotes, detailed commentary, and images. There are also supplementary materials to aid in your research. This is a work in progress. —D. Anthony Storm
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Purpose: INTERNATIONAL KIERKEGAARD INFORMATION has its roots in a single A4 sheet of paper typed on a manual typewriter in 1979, and back beyond that to an idea I had in 1973, that it might be possible, using the principles of Kierkegaard's thought, to draw people together internationally in cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary Socratic dialogue. -- Julia Watkin
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Purpose: The purpose of the SKC is a.: to carry out and promote Kierkegaard research from literary, theological and philosophical perspectives at both the national and international level b.: to establish a new complete edition of all of Kierkegaard’s writings: the works he himself had published, as well as the ones he left unfinished. The new edition will also include his journals, notebooks and loose papers, and his letters and biographical documents. The new edition carries the name of Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter. [ Søren Kierkegaard’s Writings] -- From the site's Introduction
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- Norwegian Søren Kierkegaard Society -- This is the Official website of the Norwegian Søren Kierkegaard Society -- Historical Information, Kierkegaard on the Web, and contact information.
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