Kierkegaard

by Stephen Backhouse

  196: “Kierkegaard was by far”: Maurice Drury ‘Some Notes of Conversations with Wittgenstein’, Recollections of Wittgenstein. eds. Rhees, Rush (Oxford: Blackwell, 1981), 87.

  197: “threshing machine”: Jack Schwandt, The Hong Kierkegaard Library (Northfield: Friends of the Kierkegaard Library, 2011), 34.

  199: “spiritual thrillers”: T. S. Eliot “A Lay Theologian” [review of The Descent of the Dove by Charles Williams], The New Statesman (9 December 1939).

  199: “His sayings”: Williams, Descent, 194.

  199: “K. may rebuild”: Williams to Lowrie, September 7, 1939, WLP. In Michael J. Paulus Jr. “From a Publisher’s Point of View: Charles Williams’s Role in Publishing Kierkegaard in English”, Charles Williams and his Contemporaries, eds. Suzanne Bray and Richard Sturch (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), 33.

  200: “more intangible”: Williams to Lowrie, June 3, 1940, WLP. In Michael J. Paulus Jr. “From a Publisher’s Point of View: Charles Williams’s Role in Publishing Kierkegaard in English”, Charles Williams and his Contemporaries, eds. Suzanne Bray and Richard Sturch (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), 35.

  200: “A week ago”: Thomas Merton, Run to the Mountain: The Journals of Thomas Merton Volume 1, (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1997), 259.

  201: “Many moderns … to be so evil”: Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew (New York: Viking Press, 1946), 147–49.

  202: “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence”: Nigel Hatton, “Martin Luther King”, Kierkegaard’s Influence on Social-Political Thought, ed. Jon Stewart (Burlington: Ashgate, 2011), 102, quoting The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. vol. 5, 419–24.

  202: “Our problem today”: Hatton, 104; Martin Luther King Jr. ‘The Quest for Peace and Justice’ Nobel Lecture December 11, 1964.

  202: “In reading Kierkegaard”: West interview with George Yancy quoted in Marcia C. Robinson “Cornel West”, Kierkegaard’s Influence on Social-Political Thought, ed. Jon Stewart (Burlington: Ashgate, 2011), 236. See note. 27, 237.

  203: “existentially concrete”: Robinson, 238.

  203: “viewpoint”: Cornel West, Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1982), 167, n2.

  203: “All honour to the Hongs”: Jonathan Ree, Times Literary Supplement (June 26, 1998, no.17).

  205: “He wanted his epitaph”: “Mike Tyson Explores Kierkegaard” Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2013.

  205: “Reflektor”: Zoe Camp “The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far (2010–2014)” Pitchfork. August 2014.

  205: “It sounds like”: Patrick Doyle, “Win Butler Reveals Secret Influences Behind Arcade Fire’s ‘Reflektor’ ” Rolling Stone Magazine, October 22, 2013.

  206: “Donald Glover”: http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/donaldglover-childish-gambino-interview. 31 October 2013.

  206: “Simon Munnery”: Recorded interview with the author. March 18, 2015.

  207: “We may regard it”: Hans Lassen Martensen, Af mit Levnet: Meddelelser [From My Life: Communications] 3 volumes, København: Gyldendal, 1882–83.

  Afterword

  210: “the religious”: PV, 103.

  211: “The conflict about Christianity”: JP 4185 (X3 A 346 n.d., 1850).

  Abbreviations

  BA Book on Adler

  CA Concept of Anxiety

  CD Christian Discourses

  CI The Concept of Irony

  COR The Corsair Affair

  CUP Concluding Unscientific Postscript

  EO Either/Or

  EP Early Polemical Writings

  EUD Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses

  FSE For Self-Examination

  FT Fear and Trembling

  JC Johannes Climacus

  JFY Judge for Yourself!

  JP Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers

  M The Moment and Late Writings

  PC Practice in Christianity

  PF Philosophical Fragments

  PV The Point of View

  R Repetition

  SLW Stages on Life’s Way

  SUD Sickness unto Death

  TA Two Ages

  TDIO Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions

  UDVS Upbuilding Discourses

  in Various Spirits

  WA Without Authority

  WL Works of Love

  Bibliography

  Kierkegaard

  Søren Kierkegaard: Samelede Værker [Collected works]. Eds. A. B. Drachmann, J. L. Heiberg, et al. 20 vols. København: Gyldendal, 1962–64.

  Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter [Writings]. Eds. Niels Cappelørn, Niels Jørgen, Joakim Garff, et al. 55 volumes in process. København: Gads Forlag, 1997 to present.

  Søren Kierkegaards Papirer [Papers and journals]. Eds. P. A. Heiberg, V. Kuhr, E. Torsting, and N. Thulstrup, vols. I–XIII. København: Gyldendal, 1909–48; 1968–70; 1975–78.

  Kierkegaard Translations

  Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers. Eds. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. 7 volumes. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1967–78.

  Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks. Eds. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, David Kangas, Bruce H. Kirmmse, George Pattison, Vanessa Rumble, and K. Brian Söderquist. 8 volumes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.

  Kierkegaard’s Writings. Series eds. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. 26 volumes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978–98.

  I. Early Polemical Writings. Edited and translated by Julia Watkin.

  II. The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates/Notes of Schelling’s Berlin Lectures. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  III. Either/Or. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  IV. Either/Or Part Two. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  V. Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  VI. Fear and Trembling/Repetition (Two books in one volume). Edited and translated by Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong.

  VII. Philosophical Fragments, or a Fragment of Philosophy/Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est (Two books in one volume). Edited and translated by Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong.

  VIII. Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin. Edited and translated by Reidar Thomte.

  IX. Prefaces: Writing Sampler. Edited and translated by Todd W. Nichol.

  X. Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions. Edited and translated by Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong.

  XI. Stages on Life’s Way. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  XII Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  XIII. The Corsair Affair and Articles Related to the Writings. Edited and translated by Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong.

  XIV. Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age, A Literary Review. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  XV. Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  XVI Works of Love. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  XVII. Christian Discourses: The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  XVIII. Without Authority (containing Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air; Two Ethical-Religious Essays; Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays; An Upbuilding Discourse; Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays). Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  XIX. Sickness unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening. Edited and translated by Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong.

  XX. Practice in Christianity. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  XXI. For Self-Examination/Judge for Yourself! (Two books in one volume). Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.<
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  XXII. The Point of View. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  XXIII. The Moment and Late Writings. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  XXIV. The Book on Adler. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

  XXV. Letters and Documents. Edited and translated by Henrik Rosenmeier.

  XXVI. Cumulative Index to Kierkegaard’s Writings. Compiled by Nathaniel J. Hong, Kathryn Hong, Regine Prenzel-Guthrie.

  Papers and Journals: A Selection. Trans. Alastair Hannay. Penguin: London, 2015.

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