Abbreviations and Forms of Reference
In a sense, this volume can be thought of as two projects in one. First, there is the introductory material, which proceeds along the lines of a typical Anglophone contribution to Kierkegaard scholarship. Next, there are the translations of Kierkegaard’s writings themselves.
With regard to the former—that is to say, both the “General Introduction” and the brief section introductions—quotations from Kierkegaard’s published work generally have been taken from the current standard English translations of his work Kierkegaard’s Writings, issued by Princeton University Press under the direction of Howard and Edna Hong. On occasion, however, I have elected to provide my own translations of Kierkegaard’s writings, and, when appropriate, I have made a note of that decision. Accordingly, the standard Danish edition of Kierkegaard’s works, Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter [SKS] is also indicated. Many quotations from Kierkegaard’s Nachlaß have been taken from Søren Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers [JP], the seven-volume set arranged by the Hongs, and, as with the published writings, I have linked these references to SKS as well. However, in other instances, I have translated journal passages myself, noting their location in SKS or, even more rarely, in the older Papirer. Below, a register of abbreviations has been included, and complete documentary information can be accessed in the works cited section.
With regard to the translations per se, I have elected only to cite their location in SKS. This information can be found at the beginning of each chapter and is indicated by the first note in the chapter. Rather than use abbreviations, I have tried to keep this data as simple and as unobtrusive as possible, featuring the SKS series volume and corresponding page numbers, along with a handful of other factual details. Any other notes that appear in these chapters—and there will be only a few—will not require special abbreviations or forms of reference.
Abbreviations
Danish
SKS Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter (1997–2013)
Pap. Søren Kierkegaards Papirer (1909–48)
English
BA The Book on Adler (1995)
CA The Concept of Anxiety (1980)
CD Christian Discourses/The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress (1997)
CI The Concept of Irony (1989)
COR The Corsair Affair (1982)
CUP1 Concluding Unscientific Postscript to “Philosophical Fragments,” vol. 1 (1992)
EO1 Either/Or, vol. 1 (1987)
EO2 Either/Or, vol. 2 (1987)
EUD Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses (1990)
FSE/JFY For Self-Examination/Judge for Yourself! (1990)
FT Fear and Trembling (1983)
JP Søren Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers, vols. 1–7 (1967–78)
KJN Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks (2007–)
LD Letters and Documents (1978)
M “The Moment” and Late Writings (1998)
PC Practice in Christianity (1991)
PF/JC Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus (1985)
PV The Point of View (1998)
SLW Stages on Life’s Way (1988)
SUD The Sickness unto Death (1980)
TA Two Ages (1978)
TD Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions (1993)
UDVS Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits (1993)
WA Without Authority (1997)
WL Works of Love (1995)
Notes
Full citations list the text in question, the volume number (when apt), and the page number(s): e.g., SKS 7, 41 / CUP 1, 34.
Volume number, journal designation, and journal entry number are provided for SKS, while volume number and entry number are supplied from the Hong edition: e.g., SKS 17, AA:13 / JP 3, 3245.
E.g., SKS 20, NB4:5 or Pap. V B 227.
See the works cited section (p. 331) for complete details.
With the exception of Søren Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers, all abbreviations in this list correspond to editions of Kierkegaard’s Writings, edited by Howard and Edna Hong. Again, see works cited for more information.