Kierkegaard"s Writings, Xxii (ebook)

Argumento de Kierkegaard"s Writings, Xxii (ebook)

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.

"The definitive edition of the Writings. The first volume . . . indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent notes."--Library Journal0HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
On My Work as an Author
The Accounting
APPENDIX My Position as a Religious Author in
"Christendom" and My Strategy
The Point of View for My Work as an Author
Introduction
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
A. The Esthetic Writing Why the beginning
was made with esthetic writing, or what
this writing, understood in the totality, signifies
1. "Christendom" is an enormous illusion
2. If one is truly to succeed in leading
a person to a specific place, one must
first and foremost take care to find him
where he is and begin there
3. The illusion that religion and
Christianity are something to which one turns only when one becomes older
4. Even though a person refuses to go
along to the place to which one is
endeavoring to lead him, there is still
one thing that can be done for him:
compel him to become aware
5. All the esthetic writing seen in the
totality of the writing is a deception,
but understood in a singular way
B. Concluding Postscript
C. The Religious Writing
Conclusion
CHAPTER II The Dissimilarity of My Personal
Existing Corresponding to the Dissimilar Nature of the Writing
A. Personal Existing in Relation to the Esthetic Writing
B. Personal Existing in Relation to the Religious Writing
CHAPTER III Governance's Part in My Authorship
EPILOGUE
CONCLUSION
SUPPLEMENT
"The Single Individual" Two "Notes"
Concerning My Work as an Author
Preface
No. 1 For the Dedication to "That Single
Individual"
No.2 A Word on the Relation of My Work as
an Author to "The Single Individual"
Postscript
Postscript to the "Two Notes"
Armed Neutrality
SUPPLEMENT
Key to References
Original Title Page of On My Work as an Author
Original Title Page of The Point of View
for My Work as an Author
Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's
Journals and Papers Pertaining to On My
Work as an Author and The Point of View for
My Work as an Author
First Manuscript Page of Armed Neutrality
Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Armed
Neutrality
EDITORIAL APPENDIX
Acknowledgments
Collation of On My Work as an Author in the
Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works
Collation of The Point of View for My Work as
an Author in the Danish Editions of
Kierkegaard's Collected Works
Notes
Bibliographical Note
Index