Kierkegaard's Writings, XXII, Volume 22 : : The Point of View / / Søren Kierkegaard; ed. by Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Kierkegaard, Søren,
• HerausgeberIn: Hong, Edna H.,; Hong, Howard V.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Kierkegaard's Writings ; 54
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 3 halftones

As a spiritual autobiography, Kierkegaard's The Point of View for My Work as an Author stands among such great works as Augustine's Confessions and Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua. Yet Point of View is neither a confession nor a defense; it is an author's story of a lifetime of writing, his understanding of the maze of greatly varied works that make up his oeuvre. Upon the imminent publication of the second edition of Either/Or, 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 Point of View, which was published posthumously, the present volume also contains On My Work as an Author, a contemporary substitute, and the companion piece Armed Neutrality.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Historical Introduction -- The Accounting -- Appendix. My Position as a Religious Author in "Christendom" and My Strategy -- The Point of View for My Work as an Author. A Direct Communication, Report to History -- 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 -- Chapter II -- Chapter III -- Armed Neutrality Or My Position as a Christian Author in Christendom -- Armed Neutrality -- Supplement -- Editorial Appendix