Edifying discourses, a selection
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Selection or partial work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~130,000 words · 602 passages
Cite this work
- APASøren Kierkegaard. (n.d.). Edifying discourses, a selection. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/kierkegaard/edifying-discourses-a-selection
- MLASøren Kierkegaard. "Edifying discourses, a selection." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/kierkegaard/edifying-discourses-a-selection.
- ChicagoSøren Kierkegaard. Edifying discourses, a selection. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/kierkegaard/edifying-discourses-a-selection.
What it is about
A selection from the edifying discourses: short texts on patience, expectancy, love and death, written to be read slowly.
Context and history
One detail changes how they should be seen: these he signed with his own name, whereas Either/Or, The Concept of Anxiety and the rest he published under pseudonyms. It was not a game. Kierkegaard issued the two series in parallel: the pseudonyms hold positions he sets out without owning, while in the discourses he speaks himself. Anyone wanting to know what Kierkegaard thought has here the voice he acknowledged as his.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
\ LTHOUGH this little book (which is called "dis-/\ courses," not sermons, because its author has no XX authority to preach; "edifying discourses," not discourses for edification, because the speaker does not claim to be a teacher) only wishes to be what it is, something of a superfluity, and only desires to remain in secret, as it came into existence in secret, I still have not said farewell to it without an almost fantastic hope. Insofar as it, by being published, is, figuratively speaking, starting out on a kind of journey, I let my eye follow it a little while. I saw, then, how it set out on its solitary way, or solitary set out along the highway. After one and another little misapprehension, when it was deceived by a fleeting resemblance, it finally met that individual whom with joy and gratitude I call my reader, that individual whom it seeks, toward whom, as it were, it stretches out its arms; that individual who is benevolent enough to let himself be found, benevolent enough to receive it, whether in the moment of meeting it found him happy and confident, or "melancholy and thoughtful." On the other hand, insofar as, by being published, it in a stricter sense remains quiet without leaving the place, I
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