Early Polemical Writings

by Soren Kierkegaard

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

, 1990

Overview

Early Polemical Writings covers the young Kierkegaard’s works from 1834 through 1838. His 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. Modern readers can see the seeds of Kierkegaard’s future career these early pieces. In “From the Papers of One Still Living,” his review of Hans Christian Andersen’s novel Only a Fiddler, Kierkegaard rejects the notion that environment is decisive in determining the fate of genius. He also puts forward his belief that each person needs a life-view or life for which and by which to live, a thought he explores further in the comic play The Battle between the Old and the New Soap-Cellars.

Product Details

• Title: Early Polemical Writings
• Author: Soren Kierkegaard
• Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings
• Volume: I
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Print Publication Date: 1990
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Belief and doubt; History; Philosophy
• ISBNs: 9781400832309, 0691073694, 0691140723, 9780691073699, 9780691140728, 1400832306
• Resource ID: LLS:KKGWRTGS01
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-04T22:59:24Z

About Soren Kierkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel; he was also critical of the state and practice of Christianity in his lifetime, primarily that of The Church of Denmark. He is widely considered to be the first existentialist.