Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions

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

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780691140742
  9780691033006
• eBook ISBN:
  9781400832323
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions was the last of seven works signed by Kierkegaard and published simultaneously with an anonymously authored companion piece. Imagined Occasions both complements and stands in contrast to Kierkegaard's pseudonymously published Stages on Life's Way.


The two volumes not only have a chronological relation but treat some of the same distinct themes. The first of the three discourses, "On the Occasion of a Confession," centers on stillness, wonder, and one's search for God--in contrast to the speechmaking on erotic love in "In Vino Veritas," part one of Stages. The second discourse, "On the Occasion of a Wedding," complements the second part of Stages, in which Judge William delivers a panegyric on marriage. The third discourse, "At a Graveside," sharpens the ethical and religious earnestness implicit in Stages's "'Guilty'/'Not Guilty'" and completes this collection.

INDEX

Abel: death of, 109

accounting. See confession

accusation: and confession, 10

admiration: object of, 141

adversity: and God, 66–67

marriage and, 54–55, 67, 140

and resolution, 66–68

agape, 161

anesthesia, 147

angel: of Satan, 40

Anna: funeral address for, ix, 113

apostle(s): and authority, 118

and Satan’s angel, 40

appropriation: and learning, 38

and presupposition, 21

reader and, 129–30

Aristotle: and enthymeme, 111

Aristoteles graece, 167

Categories, 110

Rhetoric, ix, 110–11, 119

author: without authority, 152

authority: apostles and, 118

author without, 152

discourse and, x, 27–28, 58, 73

speaker and, x, 44–45

and spies, 136

axe: at root of tree, 93

Bedested, 159

beginning: and love, 47

and resolution, 47–48, 51–52, 65–67

benefaction: death as, 96

Berlingske Tidende: review of Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions in, xi–xiii

BIBLE

New Testament:

I Corinthians 9:24–27, 118; 9:24–10:6, 169; 9:26, 50; 13:1, 48; 15:32, 83

II Corinthians 6:1–10, 169; 6:10, 11, 133; 7:10, 130; 12:7, 40

Ephesians 2:12, 78

James 1:19, 97

John 2:1–11, 62; 8:1–11, 35; 9:4, 80, 84; 11:4, 12

Luke 2:36–38, 113; 7:47, 49; 12:16–20, 91; 16:10–11, 37; 22:54–62, 114–15; 23:41, 116

Mark 10:25, 10; 14:66–72, 114–15

Matthew 3:10, 93; 5:8, 130; 5:25, 12; 6:2, 50; 6:5, 50; 6:6, 10, 50; 6:16, 50; 6:17, 31; 6:19–20, 152; 6:25, 113; 6:31–32, 91; 7:13–14, 32; 9:21, 117; 10:28, 77; 11:16–17...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Historical Introduction
• Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions
• Dedication
• Preface
• On the Occasion of a Confession
• On the Occasion of a Wedding
• At a Graveside
• Supplement
• Key to References
• Original Title Page of Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions
• Selected Entries from Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers Pertaining to Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions
• Editorial Appendix
• Acknowledgments
• Collation of Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard’s Collected Works
• Notes
• Bibliographical Note
• Index
• Advisory Board