A Kierkegaard Anthology

by Soren Kierkegaard

Other authorsRobert Bretall (Editor)
Paperback, 1973

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This anthology covers the whole of Kierkegaard's literary career. The selections range from the terse epigrams of the Journal through the famous "Diary of the Seducer" and the "Banquet" scene, in which Søren Kierkegaard reveals his great lyric and dramatic gifts, on to the philosophical and psychological works of his maturity. These are climaxed by the beautiful and moving religious discourses which accompany them; finally, there is the biting satire of his Attack upon "Christendom."This is emphatically not a collection of "snippets," but the cream of Kierkegaard, each selection interesting and intelligible in itself, and all ranking among his most important work. They are so arranged as to convey an idea of his remarkable intellectual development.Contents: A comprehensive anthology from the following works: Either/Or Fear and Trembling Stages on Life's Way Works of Love Concluding Unscientific Postscript Attack upon "Christendom" The Sickness Unto Death Philosophical Fragments and other?… (more)

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Princeton University Press (1973), Edition: 1st Princeton Paperback Ed, 528 pages

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LibraryThing member tungsten_peerts
You'd never know it from his 'general' reputation, but SK ain't hard to read at all. Far from it, in fact. Being only ~35 pages into this anthology I'd tentatively bracket him with Nietszche in my personal category of philosophers (if that is indeed what he is/was) who write sufficiently well that
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you begin to be nervous they might not, in fact, be philosophers at all, but "just writers." Of course, I haven't read enough to make judgments I can feel sanguine will remain intact.

When I am in a less charitable mood, which happens more and more often as I age, I refer to the Nietszche - Kierkegaard sort of philosopher as "not a philosopher, but someone who just says sh*t." It seems that I have a hard time fielding philosophy that does not involve at least some level of ... what? argument? logic? Not sure what word I want to use to anchor that ... but much of FN has seemed to me (and I obviously need to reread him, and more closely than before) to be scarcely argued, but simply, well, *stated*. Mind you I admit that some of the sh*t these folks just say is brilliant. 'Tain't that.
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