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Kierkegaard, S.A. (1962–4) Samlede Vaerker, ed.
A.B.
Drachmann, J.L.
Heiberg and H.O.
Lange, Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 20 vols. (The definitive edition of Kierkegaard’s complete works.) |
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Kierkegaard, S.A. (1841) Om Begrebet Ironi, trans.
H.V.
Hong and E.H.
Hong, The Concept of Irony, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. (Kierkegaard’s university dissertation. Though principally concerned with Socratic irony, he also discusses the concept in relation to writers associated with German romanticism.) |
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Kierkegaard, S.A. (1843a) Enten-Eller, trans.
H.V.
Hong and E.H.
Hong, Either/Or, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987, 2 vols. (Presents contrasting life-views, one aesthetic and the other ethical, in the form of papers and letters attributed to two imaginary characters.) |
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Kierkegaard, S.A. (1843b) Frygt og Baeven and Gjentagelsen, trans.
H.V.
Hong and E.H.
Hong, Fear and Trembling and Repetition, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. (Two pseudonymous writings: the first an extended meditation on the implications of the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac; the second a portrayal in fictional form of psychological, ethical and religious issues raised by a problematic love-affair.) |
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Kierkegaard, S.A. (1844) Philosophiske Smuler, trans.
H.V.
Hong and E.H.
Hong, Philosophical Fragments, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985. (A concise and complex study in which idealist and rationalist approaches to truth are contrasted with ones fundamental to Christian belief.) |
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Kierkegaard, S.A. (1844) Begrebet Angest, trans.
R.
Thomte and A.B.
Anderson, The Concept of Anxiety, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980. (An analysis of a pervasive attitude of mind (Angst) chiefly evoked by an awareness of human freedom and of possibilities involving radical choice.) |
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Kierkegaard, S.A. (1845) Stadier paa Livets Vej, trans.
H.V.
Hong and E.H.
Hong, Stages on Life’s Way, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. (The stages in the title are identified as aesthetic, ethical and religious, Kierkegaard’s treatment of the last of these drawing indirectly but graphically on his own life and experience.) |
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Kierkegaard, S.A. (1846) Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift, trans.
D.F.
Swenson, L.M.
Swenson and W.
Lowrie, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1941. (The book most central to an understanding of Kierkegaard’s philosophical position, both in its critique of objective or speculative approaches to religion and in its correlative stress on the irreducibly subjective character of authentic religious faith.) |
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Kierkegaard, S.A. (1849) Sygdommen til Døden, trans.
H.V.
Hong and E.H.
Hong, The Sickness Unto Death, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980. (Contains intricate accounts of various forms of spiritual malaise seen as reflecting specific failures in individual self-development.) |
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Kierkegaard, S.A. (1850) Indøvelse i Christendom, trans.
W.
Lowrie, Training in Christianity, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1944. (Kierkegaard’s final pseudonymous work. Strongly critical of contemporary interpretations of Christianity, it anticipates the uncompromising virulence of his open attacks on the clerical establishment in the last year of his life.) |
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Kierkegaard, S.A. (1967–78) Journals and Papers, trans.
H.V.
Hong and E.H.
Hong, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 7 vols. (A comprehensive and scholarly edition in English of assorted writings unpublished in Kierkegaard’s lifetime.) |