For Self-Examination / Judge For Yourself! by Sren Kierkegaard

For Self-Examination / Judge For Yourself! by Sren Kierkegaard

For Self-Examination and its companion piece Judge for Yourself! are the culmination of Soren Kierkegaard's "second authorship," which followed his Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Among the simplest and most readily comprehended of Kierkegaard's books, the two works are part of the signed direct communications, as distinguished from his earlier pseudonymous writings. The lucidity and pithiness, and the earnestness and power, of For Self-Examination and Judge for Yourself! are enhanced when, as Kierkegaard requested, they are read aloud. They contain the well-known passages on Socrates' defense speech, how to read, the lover's letter, the royal coachman and the carriage team, and the painter's relation to his painting. The aim of awakening and inward deepening is signaled by the opening section on Socrates in For Self-Examination and is pursued in the context of the relations of Christian ideality, grace, and response. The secondary aim, a critique of the established order, links the works to the final polemical writings that appear later after a four-year period of silence.

"The definitive edition of the WritingsThe first volume ... indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent notes."--Library Journal

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ISBN 13	9780691020662
ISBN 10	0691020663
Title	For Self-Examination / Judge For Yourself!
Author	Sren Kierkegaard
Series	Kierkegaard's Writings
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Year published	1991-05-26
Number of pages	320
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