Kierkegaard's Writings, XIV, Volume 14: Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age a Literary Review Contributor(s): Kierkegaard, Søren (Author), Hong, Howard V. (Editor), Hong, Howard V. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0691140766 ISBN-13: 9780691140766 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Religious - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General |
Dewey: 839.813 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.96" W x 8.55" (0.52 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Scandinavian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard composed reviews as a means of writing without being an author. Two Ages, here presented in a definitive English text, is simultaneously a review and a book in its own right. In it, Kierkegaard comments on the anonymously published Danish novel Two Ages, which contrasts the mentality of the age of the French Revolution with that of the subsequent epoch of rationalism. Kierkegaard commends the author's shrewdness, and his critique builds on the novel's view of the two generations. With keen prophetic insight, Kierkegaard foresees the birth of an impersonal cultural wasteland, in which the individual will either be depersonalized or obliged to find an existence rooted in equality before God and equality with all men. This edition, like all in the series, contains substantial supplementary material, including a historical introduction, entries from Kierkegaard's journals and papers, and the preface and conclusion of the original novel. |