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Contains the last of seven works signed by the author. This book covers three of his discourses - 'On the Occasion of a Confession', 'On the Occasion of a Wedding' and 'At a Graveside'. 'On the Occasion of a Confession' centers on stillness, wonder, and one's search for God - in contrast to the speechmaking on erotic love in 'In Vino Veritas'.

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Takes on the "unscientific" form of a mimical-pathetical-dialectical compilation of ideas. This work examines the truth of Christianity as an objective issue and the subjective issue of what is involved for the individual in becoming a Christian.

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Offers a discussion of double-mindedness and ethical integrity. This work shows an inverted qualitative difference between the learner and the teacher. It explores how joy can come out of suffering.

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Kierkegaard's authorship begins, as it was destined to end, with polemic. Kierkegaard's first published article touches on the theme of women's emancipation, and the other articles from his student years deal with freedom of the press. This work covers the young Kierkegaard's works from 1834 through 1838.

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Johannes Climacus does what we are told to do - he actually doubts everything - he suffers through all the pain of doing that, becomes cunning, almost acquires a bad conscience. When he has gone as far in that direction as he can go and wants to come back, he cannot do so...

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Takes on the "unscientific" form of a mimical-pathetical-dialectical compilation of ideas. This work examines the truth of Christianity as an objective issue and the subjective issue of what is involved for the individual in becoming a Christian.

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"The Corsair Affair" has been called the 'most renowned controversy in Danish literary history'. This volume contains the documents relevant to this dispute, and a historical introduction that recapitulates the sequence of events surrounding the controversy.

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Combines simplicity and inwardness with reflection and presents crucial Christian concepts and presuppositions.

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A volume of five short works that in various ways deals with the concept and practice of authority, including: "Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays" (1849), "An Upbuilding Discourse" (1850), and "Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays" (1851).

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"For Self-Examination" and its companion piece "Judge for Yourself!" are the culmination of Soren Kierkegaard's "second authorship," which followed his "Concluding Unscientific Postscript". This title also includes the well-known passages on Socrates' defense speech, how to read, the lover's letter, and the painter's relation to his painting.

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Kierkegaard, a poet of ideals and practitioner of the indirect method, also had a direct and polemical side. This title includes the articles from Fadrelandet, all numbers of "The Moment", and several other late pieces of Kierkegaard's writing.

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Kierkegaard was driven to write "The Book on Adler" after news spread that a Danish pastor, Adolph P Adler, claimed to have experienced a revelation in which Christ dictated a new doctrine. This volume includes an integral version of "The Book on Adler", along with excerpts from the earlier drafts and a sampling of writing by Adler himself.

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Provides an English translation of all the known correspondence to and from Soren Kierkegaard, including a number of his letters in draft form and papers pertaining to his life and death. This work offers access to the character and lifework of the gifted philosopher, theologian, and psychologist.

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Offers access to Kierkegaard's complex authorship and the extraordinary range of subjects he addressed in his writing. Covering the series' historical introductions, primary works, supplementary material (journal entries), and footnotes, this work provides a comprehensive entryway to more than 11,000 pages of text.

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Soren 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. These pseudonymous volumes of Either/Or are the writings of a young man and of Judge William.

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A reflective presentation of aspects of the "either," the esthetic view of life. It offers a collection of sardonic aphorisms that include essays on Mozart, modern drama, and boredom; and "The Seducer's Diary".

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Presented with Kierkegaard's notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on "positive philosophy" by FWJ Schelling, this book is a seedbed of Kierkegaard's subsequent work, both stylistically and thematically. It concentrates on Socrates, as interpreted by Xenophon, Plato, and Aristophanes, with a word on Hegel and Hegelian categories.

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"Prefaces" was the last of four books by Soren Kierkegaard to appear within two weeks in June 1844. Shortly after publishing "Prefaces", Kierkegaard began to prepare "Writing Sampler" as a sequel. Although "Writing Sampler" remained unpublished during his lifetime, this title presents it here as Kierkegaard originally envisioned it.

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Aims to provide philosophical learnings, in the broad sense of self-knowledge and deepened awareness. The titles include: "The Expectancy of Faith," "Love Will Hide a Multitude of Sins," "Strengthening in the Inner Being," "To Gain One's Soul in Patience," "Patience in Expectancy," and "Against Cowardliness."

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Discusses the profound implications of unity of personhood and of identity within change, beginning with the ironic story of a young poet who cannot fulfill the ethical claims of his engagement because of the possible consequences of his marriage.

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Describes the nature and forms of anxiety, placing the domain of anxiety within the mental-emotional states of human existence that precede the qualitative leap of faith to the spiritual state of Christianity.

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Includes the last of seven works signed by the author. This title both complements and stands in contrast to the author's pseudonymously published "Stages on Life's Way".

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Offers a poetic example of Kierkegaard's vision of the three stages, or spheres, of existence: the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious. This book begins with a banquet scene patterned on Plato's "Symposium". Next is a discourse by "Judge William" in praise of marriage "in answer to objections."

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After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous "Concluding Unscientific Postscript", Kierkegaard composed reviews as a means of writing without being an author. This work comments on the Danish novel "Two Ages", which contrasts the mentality of the age of the French Revolution with that of the subsequent epoch of rationalism.