Kierkegaard's Writings, XV, Volume 15 : : Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits / / Søren Kierkegaard; ed. by Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong.

In his praise for Part I of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, the eminent Kierkegaard scholar Eduard Geismar said, "I am of the opinion that nothing of what he has written is to such a degree before the face of God. Anyone who really wants to understand Kierkegaard does well to begin wi...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Kierkegaard's Writings ; 51
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Historical Introduction
  • Part One. An Occasional Discourse
  • Preface
  • On The Occasion Of A Confession
  • Part Two. What We Learn from The Lilies in The Field and from The Birds of The Air
  • Preface
  • I. [To Be Contented with Being a Human Being]
  • II. [How Glorious It Is to Be a Human Being]
  • III. [What Blessed Happiness Is Promised in Being a Human Being]
  • Part Three. The Gospel of Sufferings Christian Discourses
  • Preface
  • I. [What Meaning and What Joy There Are in the Thought of Following Christ]
  • II. [But How Can the Burden Be Light If the Suffering Is Heavy?]
  • III. [The Joy of It That the School of Sufferings Educates for Eternity]
  • IV. [The Joy of It That in Relation to God a Person Always Suffers as Guilty]
  • V. [The Joy of It That It Is Not the Road That Is Hard but That Hardship Is the Road]
  • VI. [The Joy of It That the Happiness of Eternity Still Outweighs Even the Heaviest Temporal Suffering]
  • VII. [The Joy of It That Bold Confidence Is Able in Suffering to Take Power from the World and Has the Power to Change Scorn into Honor, Downfall into Victory]
  • Supplement
  • Key to References
  • Original Common Title Page and Part Title Pages
  • Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits
  • Editorial Appendix
  • Acknowledgments
  • Collation of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works
  • Notes
  • Bibliographical Note
  • Index
  • Advisory Board