Kierkégaard

1424 — Princeton. 2007. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0691092222. Edited by Niels Jorgen Cappelorn Alastair Hannay David Kangas Bruce H. Kirmmse George Pattison Vanessa Rumble and K. Brian Suderquist in cooperation with the Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre Copenhagen. 616 pages. hardcover. keywords: Europe Scandinavia Denmark Literature Philosophy Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - �I would like to write a novel in which the main character would be a man who got a pair of glasses one lens of which reduced images as powerfully as an oxyhydrogen microscope and the other of which magnified on the same scale so that he perceived everything relatively.' A flight of fancy by an aspiring science fiction writer While it may sound as such this wistful musing is one of the little-discussed personal reflections of nineteenth-century philosopher S�ren Kierkegaard whose remarkable journals and notebooks unpublished during his lifetime are presented here. The first of an eleven-volume series produced by Copenhagen's S�ren Kierkegaard Research Centre this volume is the first English translation and commentary of Kierkegaard's journals based on up-to-date scholarship. It offers new insight into Kierkegaard's inner life. In addition to early drafts of his published works the journals contain his thoughts on current events and philosophical and theological matters notes on books he was reading miscellaneous jottings and ideas for future literary projects. Kierkegaard wrote his journals in a two-column format one for his initial entries and the second for the marginal comments he added later. The new edition of the journals reproduces this format and contains photographs of original manuscript pages as well as extensive scholarly commentary. Translated by leading experts on Kierkegaard Journals and Notebooks will become the benchmark for all future Kierkegaard scholarship. 9 tables. 4 maps. 19 halftones. inventory #1424 hardcover