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

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Princeton University Press, 1978 - Literary Criticism - 187 pages

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.

 

Contents

I
25
VIII
32
VIII
60
KEY TO REFERENCES
114
A LITERARY REVIEW
117
SELECTED ENTRIES
119
PREFACE AND CONCLUSION
153
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
161
NOTES
165
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
177
Copyright

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TitleTwo Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age, a Literary Review
Volume 14 of His writings
Volume 14 of Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye, 1813-1855. Works. English. 1977
Volume 14 of Kierkegaard's writings, Søren Kierkegaard
Volume 14 of Works, Søren Kierkegaard
Works. English. 1977, Søren Kierkegaard
AuthorS©ıren Kierkegaard
EditorsHoward Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong
Translated byHoward Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong
ContributorsHoward Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherPrinceton University Press, 1978
ISBN0691072264, 9780691072265
Length187 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Literary Criticism / European / Scandinavian
Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Philosophy / Individual Philosophers
Philosophy / Religious
  
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