Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard
by Søren Kierkegaard
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Publisher: Austin: University of Texas Publication date: 1923 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.Tags
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Selections from the writings of Kierkegaard was compiled by Lee Hollander in 1923 and published by the University of Texas Bulletin, July 8, 1923. The editor used a large portion of Fear and Trembling and some bits of Kierkegaard's works. The selections showed Soren Kierkegaard's struggles with the Christian doctrines but it also showed that he took much of the Gospels and the teachings of Jesus very seriously. So seriously that he was troubled by the way his society applied the faith in a way that it meant really very little. How was it he asked that a so-called Christian nations didn't act or look any different than a heathen one. "Instead of an imitation of Christ we get that sacred buffoonery under guidance and command of sworn show more clergymen", he wrote in the concluding pages of these selections. The Kindle edition I read was created in 2013. It has some flaws. There were places where words were missing or broken by other words. Not too hard to follow but it could have been done better. Perhaps I would have found it hard to follow if I hadn't read much of Kierkegaard's works in school. show less
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Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Søren Kierkegaard was the son of a wealthy middle-class merchant. He lived all his life on his inheritance, using it to finance his literary career. He studied theology at the University of Copenhagen, completing a master's thesis in 1841 on the topic of irony in Socrates. At about this time, he became engaged to a show more woman he loved, but he broke the engagement when he decided that God had destined him not to marry. The years 1841 to 1846 were a period of intense literary activity for Kierkegaard, in which he produced his "authorship," a series of writings of varying forms published under a series of fantastic pseudonyms. Parallel to these, he wrote a series of shorter Edifying Discourses, quasi-sermons published under his own name. As he later interpreted it in the posthumously published Point of View for My Work as an Author, the authorship was a systematic attempt to raise the question of what it means to be a Christian. Kierkegaard was persuaded that in his time people took the meaning of the Christian life for granted, allowing all kinds of worldly and pagan ways of thinking and living to pass for Christian. He applied this analysis especially to the speculative philosophy of German idealism. After 1846, Kierkegaard continued to write, publishing most works under his own name. Within Denmark he was isolated and often despised, a man whose writings had little impact in his own day or for a long time afterward. They were translated into German early in the twentieth century and have had an enormous influence since then, on both Christian theology and the existentialist tradition in philosophy. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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