The Point of View

by Soren Kierkegaard

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

, 1998

Overview

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 of the maze of greatly varied works that make up his oeuvre. Upon the imminent publication of the second edition of Either/Or, Kierkegaard again intended to cease writing. Now was the time for a direct “report to history” on the authorship as a whole. In addition to Point of View, which was published posthumously, the present volume also contains On My Work as an Author, a contemporary substitute, and the companion piece Armed Neutrality.

Product Details

• Title: The Point of View
• Author: Soren Kierkegaard
• Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings
• Volume: XXII
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Print Publication Date: 1998
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855; Philosophers › Denmark--Biography; Theologians › Denmark--Biography; Authors, Danish › Denmark--Biography
• ISBNs: 9781400832408, 0691058555, 0691140804, 9780691058559, 9780691140803, 1400832403
• Resource ID: LLS:KKGWRTGS22
• Resource Type: text.monograph.autobiography
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-05T00:07:17Z

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.