Kierkegaard's Writings, IX, Volume 9 : : Prefaces: Writing Sampler / / Søren Kierkegaard; ed. by Todd W. Nichol.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Kierkegaard, Søren,
• TeilnehmendeR: Nichol, Todd W.
• HerausgeberIn: Nichol, Todd W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Kierkegaard's Writings ; 58
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 3 halftones

Prefaces was the last of four books by Søren Kierkegaard to appear within two weeks in June 1844. Three Upbuilding Discourses and Philosophical Fragments were published first, followed by The Concept of Anxiety and its companion--published on the same day--the comically ironic Prefaces. Presented as a set of prefaces without a book to follow, this work is a satire on literary life in nineteenth-century Copenhagen, a lampoon of Danish Hegelianism, and a prefiguring of Kierkegaard's final collision with Danish Christendom. Shortly after publishing Prefaces, Kierkegaard began to prepare Writing Sampler as a sequel. Writing Sampler considers the same themes taken up in Prefaces but in yet a more ironical and satirical vein. Although Writing Sampler remained unpublished during his lifetime, it is presented here as Kierkegaard originally envisioned it, in the company of Prefaces.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Historical Introduction -- Prefaces -- Preface -- Preface I -- Preface II -- Preface III -- Preface IV -- Preface V -- Preface VI -- Preface VII -- Preface VIII -- Writing Sampler -- Preface -- Supplement -- Key to References -- Original Title Page of Prefaces -- Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Prefaces -- Original Manuscript Pages of Writing Sampler -- Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Writing Sampler -- EDITORIAL APPENDIX -- Acknowledgments -- Collation of Prefaces in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works -- Notes -- Bibliographical Note -- Index