Concluding unscientific postscript to Philosophical fragments

Author(s)

• Kierkegaard, Søren
• Hong, Howard Vincent
• Hong, Edna Hatlestad

Bibliographic Information

Concluding unscientific postscript to Philosophical fragments

by Søren Kierkegaard ; edited and translated with introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong

（Kierkegaard's writings, 12）

Princeton University Press, c1992

• v. 1
• v. 1 : pbk
• v. 2
• v. 2 : pbk

Other Title

Afsluttende uvidenskabelig efterskrift

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:v. 1. Text -- v. 2. Historical introduction, supplement, notes, and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9780691020815

Description

In Philosophical Fragments the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus explored the question: What is required in order to go beyond Socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner? Written as an afterword to this work, Concluding Unscientific Postscript is on one level a philosophical jest, yet on another it is Climacus's characterization of the subjective thinker's relation to the truth of Christianity. At once ironic, humorous, and polemical, this work takes on the "unscientific" form of a mimical-pathetical-dialectical compilation of ideas. Whereas the movement in the earlier pseudonymous writings is away from the aesthetic, the movement in Postscript is away from speculative thought. Kierkegaard intended Postscript to be his concluding work as an author. The subsequent "second authorship" after The Corsair Affair made Postscript the turning point in the entire authorship. Part One of the text volume examines the truth of Christianity as an objective issue, Part Two the subjective issue of what is involved for the individual in becoming a Christian, and the volume ends with an addendum in which Kierkegaard acknowledges and explains his relation to the pseudonymous authors and their writings. The second volume contains the scholarly apparatus, including a key to references and selected entries from Kierkegaard's journals and papers.

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780691073958

Description

In "Philosophical Fragments" the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus explored the question: What is required in order to go beyond Socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner? Written as an afterword to this work, "Concluding Unscientific Postscript" is on one level a philosophical jest, yet on another it is Climacus's characterization of the subjective thinker's relation to the truth of Christianity. At once ironic, humorous, and polemical, this work takes on the "unscientific" form of a mimical-pathetical-dialectical compilation of ideas. Whereas the movement in the earlier pseudonymous writings is away from the aesthetic, the movement in "Postscript" is away from speculative thought. Kierkegaard intended "Postscript" to be his concluding work as an author. The subsequent "second authorship" after "The Corsair Affair" made "Postscript" the turning point in the entire authorship. Part One of the text volume examines the truth of Christianity as an objective issue, Part Two the subjective issue of what is involved for the individual in becoming a Christian, and the volume ends with an addendum in which Kierkegaard acknowledges and explains his relation to the pseudonymous authors and their writings. The second volume contains the scholarly apparatus, including a key to references and selected entries from Kierkegaard's journals and papers.

Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780691074023

Description

In "Philosophical Fragments" the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus explored the question: What is required in order to go beyond Socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner? Written as an afterword to this work, "Concluding Unscientific Postscript" is on one level a philosophical jest, yet on another it is Climacus's characterization of the subjective thinker's relation to the truth of Christianity. At once ironic, humorous, and polemical, this work takes on the "unscientific" form of a mimical-pathetical-dialectical compilation of ideas. Whereas the movement in the earlier pseudonymous writings is away from the aesthetic, the movement in "Postscript" is away from speculative thought. Kierkegaard intended "Postscript" to be his concluding work as an author. The subsequent "second authorship" after "The Corsair Affair" made "Postscript" the turning point in the entire authorship. Part One of the text volume examines the truth of Christianity as an objective issue, Part Two the subjective issue of what is involved for the individual in becoming a Christian, and the volume ends with an addendum in which Kierkegaard acknowledges and explains his relation

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Details

• NCID: BA18498685
• ISBN:
  • 0691073953
  • 9780691020815
  • 069107402X
  • 0691020817
• LCCN: 91004093
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: dan
• Place of Publication: Princeton, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B4373.A472
  • DC20 : 201
  • NDC9 : 139.3
  • NDC8 : 139
  • NDC8 : 191
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Christianity -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Apologetics -- 19th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00138409