Howard V Hong: 23 books
Kierkegaard's Writings, XIII, Volume 13
The Corsair Affair and Articles Related to the Writings
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
The Corsair affair has been called the "most renowned controversy in Danish literary history." At the center is Søren Kierkegaard, whose pseudonymous Stages on Life's Way occasioned a frivolous and dishonorable review by Peder Ludvig Møller. Møller was associated with The Corsair, a publication...
Kierkegaard's Writings, V, Volume 5
Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
There is much to be learned philosophically from this volume, but philosophical instruction was not Kierkegaard's aim here, except in the broad sense of self-knowledge and deepened awareness. Indicating the intention of the discourses, the titles include "The Expectancy of Faith," "Love Will Hide...
by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Søren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had published two earlier works on Hans Christian Andersen...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XXII, Volume 22
The Point of View
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
As a spiritual autobiography, Kierkegaard's The Point of View for My Work as an Author stands among such great works as Augustine's Confessions and Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua. Yet Point of View is neither a confession nor a defense; it is an author's story of a lifetime of writing, his understanding...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XVI: Works of Love
Works of Love
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early Either/Or, through "The Diary of the Seducer" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, on the changelessness of God's love. Works of Love, the midpoint in the series,...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XX: Practice in Christianity
Practice in Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Of the many works he wrote during 1848, his "richest and most fruitful year," Kierkegaard specified Practice in Christianity as "the most perfect and truest thing." In his reflections on such topics as Christ's invitation to the burdened, the imitatio Christi, the possibility of...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XV, Volume 15
Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
In his praise for Part I of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, the eminent Kierkegaard scholar Eduard Geismar said, "I am of the opinion that nothing of what he has written is to such a degree before the face of God. Anyone who really wants to understand Kierkegaard does well to begin...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XVII, Volume 17
Christian Discourses: The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress.
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
First published in 1848, Christian Discourses is a quartet of pieces written and arranged in contrasting styles. Parts One and Three, "The Cares of the Pagans" and "Thoughts That Wound from Behind--for Upbuilding," serve as a polemical overture to Kierkegaard's collision with the...
by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Søren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XIV, Volume 14
Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age A Literary Review
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard composed reviews as a means of writing without being an author. Two Ages, here presented in a definitive English text, is simultaneously a review and a book in its own right. In it, Kierkegaard...
Kierkegaard's Writings, VI, Volume 6
Fear and Trembling/Repetition
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Presented here in a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, Fear and Trembling and Repetition are the most poetic and personal of Søren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings. Published in 1843 and written under the names Johannes de Silentio and Constantine Constantius,...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XIX: Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Søren Kierkegaard's radical and comprehensive analysis of human nature in a spectrum of possibilities of existence. Present here is a remarkable combination of the insight of the poet and the contemplation of the philosopher.
In...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XI, Volume 11
Stages on Life's Way
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Stages on Life's Way, the sequel to Either/Or, is an intensely poetic example of Kierkegaard's vision of the three stages, or spheres, of existence: the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious. With characteristic love for mystification, he presents the work as a bundle of documents fallen by chance...
by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Søren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had published two earlier works on Hans Christian Andersen...
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