Mon premier blog

Either/Or : Part 1 Kierkegaard's Writings Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong, Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher: Princeton University Press

And the culmination of these impressions, gleaned while reading the “Diapsalmata” and upon finishing it, Either/Or as a compilation of two “found texts,” arranged and published by an unnamed editor (Preface). I was rather sloppy in what I wrote above, and I wrongly described Either/Or (Part II) and Fear and Trembling as aesthetic works. Part I has the title of 'Anxiety as the Presupposition of Hereditary Sin and as Explaining Hereditary Sin Retrogressively in Terms of its Origin', and starts with § 1 Historical Intimations Regarding the Concept of Hereditary Sin, which is what is covered in I haven't quoted much in these posts, but I will insert one quotation below which addresses Kierkegaard's own way of writing while addressing a specific issue of the relation between the individual and the human race. What impact did philosopher Kierkegaard have toward Existentialism? I may not have learned much in my classes, but those study hall times spent reading Either/Or, Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing, The Sickness Unto Death and others were very educational, and the lessons I learned have stayed with me. After reading the preface to Either/Or, as soon as I began the “Diapsalmata,” the section from which I draw the following excerpts, I was struck. The Foreward explains that because the book is a series of ten years ago when Kierkegaard's books came into my life. You are exactly right, Michael. The editor refers to the first set of writing as the writings of “A,” in light of the fact that he has no name for the author. Either/Or 1: Kierkegaard's Writings. A good friend, who went to the trouble of writing a doctoral dissertation on Kierkegaard, once remarked to me that he thought that, rather than calling him a philosopher, we ought to call him an evangelical psychologist. I find humor in those aspects of myself that can be reduced to clichés when I laugh at 'Stuff White People Like', but I also separate off another part, the part that does the laughing. €�The thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die" (A journal writing on August 1, 1835, by Philosopher Kierkegaard). Yet Kierkegaard's aim was never to be purely abstract, and that's a big part of why I came to love his writings.