Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age A Literary Review
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Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age A Literary Review

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Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age A Literary Review

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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.

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INDEX

abstract, 80, 108
abstraction, 21, 55, 75, 80, 84f, 86-94, 103f, 106-09, 132, 134
abyss, 108
accidental, the, 62
achieved, 101
action, 52, 66-69, 71, 73f, 91, 96-111, 104, 109f, 170
actor, 128
Acts, 170
actuality, 14f, 18ff, 72, 76, 90f, 93, 105
addition, 103, 140
Adler, A. P., 149, 175
admiration, 72ff, 78, 80, 82f, 145
age, 11, 22f, 122
the present a., 29, 31-34, 41f, 45, 47f, 51, 56ff, 68-111, 122, 128f, 140, 144, 153f
the a. of revolution, 25, 31, 34, 41, 45, 47, 61-70, 110, 153
Agrippa, 66
Aladdin, 174
Alcibiades, 35, 171
alien, 20
alienation, 92
“Almindeligt Forfatter-Lexicon,” xi
ambiguity, 53f, 69, 77f, 80, 94
Ammianus Marcellinus, 169
Amor’s Strokes of Genius, 144
“An den Mond,” 149, 175
Andersen, Hans Christian, viii, 127, 166
annulment, 97, 100-03, 130, 170
anonymity, 16, 103f, 139, 166, 172
anticipation, 71
antiquity, 84f, 91f, 138f
apathy, 73ff, 84, 132, 136
Archimedes, 66, 1...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Historical Introduction
  6. Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age, A Literary Review
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. I Survey of the Contents of Both Parts
  10. II An Esthetic Interpretation of the Novel and Its Details
  11. III Conclusions from a Consideration of the Two Ages
  12. Supplement
  13. Editorial Appendix
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliographical Note
  16. Index