Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses

Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780691020877, 9780691073804
• eBook ISBN: 9781400874378
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy of Religion

There is much to be learned philosophically from this volume, but philosophical instruction was not Kierkegaard's aim here, except in the broad sense of self-knowledge and deepened awareness. Indicating the intention of the discourses, the titles include "The Expectancy of Faith," "Love Will Hide a Multitude of Sins," "Strengthening in the Inner Being," "To Gain One's Soul in Patience," "Patience in Expectancy," and "Against Cowardliness."


In tone and substance these works are in accord with the concluding words of encouragement in Either/Or, which was paired with the first volume of discourses: "Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it--and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you--for only the truth that builds up is truth for you."

EDITORIAL APPENDIX

Acknowledgments

Collation of the Six Volumes of Upbuilding Discourses
in the Danish Editions of
Kierkegaard’s Collected Works

Notes

Bibliographical Note

Index

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Preparation of manuscripts for Kierkegaard’s Writings is supported by a genuinely enabling grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant includes gifts from the Dronning Margrethes og Prins Henriks Fond, the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs, the Augustinus Fond, the Carlsberg Fond, and the Lutheran Brotherhood Foundation.

The translators-editors are indebted to Grethe Kjaer and Julia Watkin for their knowledgeable observations on crucial concepts and terminology.

John Elrod, Per Lønning, and Sophia Scopetéa, members of the International Advisory Board for Kierkegaard’s Writings, have given valuable criticism of the manuscript on the whole and in detail. Jack Schwandt, Jørgen Hansen, Margaret Hansen, Craig Mason, and Julia Watkin helpfully read the manuscript. Kathryn Hong, associate editor for KW at St. Olaf, scrutinized the manuscript. Regine Prenzel-Guthrie, assistant editor for KW, also scrutinized the manuscript and prepared the index.

Acknowledgment is made to Gyldendals Forlag for permission to use the texts and to absorb notes in Søren Kierkegaards samlede Værker and Søren Kierkegaards Papirer.

Inclusion in the Supplement of entries from Søren Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers is by arrangement with Indiana University Press.

The book collection and the microfilm collection of the Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, have been used in preparation of the text and of the Supplement and Editorial Appendix.

The original manuscript was typed by Dorothy Bolton and Kennedy Lemke. The final manuscript and composition tape were ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Historical Introduction
• Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843)
• Three Upbuilding Discourses (1843)
• Four Upbuilding Discourses (1843)
• Two Upbuilding Discourses (1844)
• Three Upbuilding Discourses (1844)
• Four Upbuilding Discourses (1844)
• Supplement
• Editorial Appendix