Howard V. Hong, the former Director of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, is
the General Editor of Kierkegaard's Writings.
Hong, Edna H. :
Edna H. Hong is a poet, writer, and translator who has collaborated with Professor Hong on other English translations
of Kierkegaard's work.
Review
"The crowning achievement of [the Hongs'] monumental translation of all of Kierkegaard's published writings....
A rich and stimulating volume.... A book for everyone with an interest in Kierkegaard, from the first-time reader
to the more experienced."
--Bruce H. Kirmmse, editor of Encounters with Kierkegaard
Princeton University Press Web Site, January, 2001
Summary
This is the most comprehensive anthology of Søren Kierkegaard's works ever assembled in English. Drawn
from the volumes of Princeton's authoritative Kierkegaard's Writings series by editors Howard and Edna Hong, the
selections represent every major aspect of Kierkegaard's extraordinary career. They reveal the powerful mix of
philosophy, psychology, theology, and literary criticism that made Kierkegaard one of the most compelling writers
of the nineteenth century and a shaping force in the twentieth. With an introduction to Kierkegaard's writings
as a whole and explanatory notes for each selection, this is the essential one-volume guide to a thinker who changed
the course of modern intellectual history.
The anthology begins with Kierkegaard's early journal entries and traces the development of his work chronologically
to the final The Changelessness of God. The book presents generous selections from all of Kierkegaard's landmark
works, including Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Works of Love, and The Sickness unto Death, and draws new attention
to a host of such lesser-known writings as Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions and The Lily of the Field and
the Bird of the Air. The selections are carefully chosen to reflect the unique character of Kierkegaard's work,
with its shifting pseudonyms, its complex dialogues, and its potent combination of irony, satire, sermon, polemic,
humor, and fiction. We see the esthetic, ethical, and ethical-religious ways of life initially presented as dialogue
in two parallel series of pseudonymous and signed works and later in the "second authorship" as direct
address. And we see the themes that bind the whole together, in particular Kierkegaard's overarching concern with,
in his own words, "What it means to exist; . . . what it means to be a human being."
Together, the selections provide the best available introduction to Kierkegaard's writings and show more completely
than any other book why his work, in all its creativity, variety, and power, continues to speak so directly today
to so many readers around the world.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Early journal Entries
From the Papers of One Still Living
The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates
Either/Or, A Fragment of Life, I
Either/Or, A Fragment of Life, II
Four Upbuilding Discourses
Fear and Trembling
Repetition
Philosophical Fragments, or a Fragment of Philosophy
Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum. Est
The Concept of Anxiety
Prefaces
Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions
Stages on Life's Way
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
"The Activity of a Traveling Esthetician and How He Still Happened to Pay for the Dinner"
Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and The Present Age. A Literary Review
Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits
Works of Love
Christian Discourses
The Lily in the Field and the Bird o the Air
Two Ethical-Religious Essays
The Sickness unto Death
Practice in Christianity
Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays
For Self-Examination [First series]
Judge for Yourself! For Self-Examination, Second series
The Book on Adler
Faedrelandet Articles and The Moment
On My Work as an Author and The Point of View for My Work as an Author
The Changelessness of God
