Description: Kierkegaard's Journals and Nots : Journals Nb6-10, Hardcover by Cappelorn, Niels Jorgen (EDT); Hannay, Alastair (EDT); Kangas, David (EDT); Kirmmse, Bruce H. (EDT); Pattison, George (EDT), ISBN 0691152187, ISBN-13 9780691152189, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
For over a century, the Danish thinker Sren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, more recently, fields such as social thought, psychology, and contemporary aesthetics, especially literary theory.
Despite his relatively short life, Kierkegaard was an extraordinarily prolific writer, as attested to by the 26-volume Princeton University Press edition of all of his published writings. But Kierkegaard left behind nearly as much unpublished writing, most of which consists of what are called his "journals and nots." Kierkegaard has long been recognized as one of historys great journal keepers, but only rather small portions of his journals and nots are what we usually understand by the term "diaries." By far the greater part of Kierkegaards journals and nots consists of reflections on a myriad of subjects--philosophical, religious, political, personal. Studying his journals and nots takes us into his workshop, where we can see his entire universe of thought. We can witness the genesis of his published works, to be sure--but we can also see whole galaxies of concepts, new insights, and fragments, large and small, of partially (or almost entirely) completed but unpublished works. Kierkegaards Journals and Nots enables us to see the thinker in dialogue with his times and with himself.
Volume 5 of this 11-volume series includes five of Kierkegaards important "NB" journals (Journals NB6 through NB10), covering the months from summer 1848 through early May 1849. This was a turbulent period both in the history of Denmark--which was experiencing the immediate aftermath of revolution and the fall of absolutism, a continuing war with the German states, and the replacement of the State Church with the Danish Peoples Church--and for Kierkegaard personally. The journals in the present volume include Kierkegaards reactions to the political upheaval, a retrospective account of his audiences with King Christian VIII, deliberations about publishing an autobiographical explanation of his writings, and an increasingly harsh critique of the Danish Church. These journals also reflect Kierkegaards deep concern over his collision with the satirical journal Corsair, an experience that helped radicalize his view of "essential Christianity" and caused him to ponder the meaning of martyrdom.
Kierkegaard wrote his journals in a two-column format, one for his initial entries and the second for the extensive marginal comments that he added later. This edition of the journals reproduces this format, includes several photographs of original manuscript pages, and contains extensive scholarly commentary on the various entries and on the history of the manuscripts being reproduced.
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Book Title: Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks : Journals Nb6-10
Number of Pages: 600 Pages
Publication Name: Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 5 Vol. 5 : Journals Nb6-Nb10
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1.6 in
Publication Year: 2012
Subject: Philosophers, Individual Philosophers, Europe / Scandinavia, General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 44.1 Oz
Item Length: 10.1 in
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Width: 8 in
Series: Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks Ser.
Format: Hardcover
