CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 10
‘When the sea exerts all its might’: S. Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton University Press, 1983), p. 82, and see also pp. 14, 49, 131; S. Kierkegaard, Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton University Press, 1992), p. 399; S. Kierkegaard, Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton University Press, 2009), p. 121.
he leased another ‘fine and expensive apartment’: Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 5: Journals NB6–NB10, ed. and trans. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, David Kangas, Bruce H. Kirmmse, George Pattison, Joel D. S. Rasmussen, Vanessa Rumble and K. Brian Söderquist (Princeton University Press, 2012), pp. 144–5: NB7, 114 (September to November 1848); see also pp. 450–51.
‘when all the furniture of the town is exchanging quarters’: see Andrew Hamilton, Sixteen Months in the Danish Isles, vol. 2 (Richard Bentley, 1852), p. 170.
‘Here, too, Governance came to my assistance’: Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 5: Journals NB6–NB10, ed. and trans. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, David Kangas, Bruce H. Kirmmse, George Pattison, Joel D. S. Rasmussen, Vanessa Rumble and K. Brian Söderquist (Princeton University Press, 2012), p. 145: NB7, 114 (September to November 1848).
‘What is most important often seems so insignificant’: S. Kierkegaard, The Point of View, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton University Press, 2009), pp. 36–7.
that single individual: see ibid, pp. 37, 69.
P. G. Philipsen, who ran a fairly new bookshop: see Niels Thulstrup, The Copenhagen of Kierkegaard, ed. Marie Mikulová Thulstrup, trans. Ruth Mach-Zagal (Reitzel, 1981), pp. 50–51. Philipsen published Kierkegaard’s dissertation On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates in 1841, and five collections of Kierkegaard’s discourses during the 1840s.
One sermon was on ‘The Expectancy of Faith’: ‘The Expectancy of Faith’ is based on Galatians 3: 23–end, and ‘Every Good and Every Perfect Gift’ on James 1: 17–22. See Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, pp. 1–48.
‘that single individual whom with joy and gratitude I call my reader’: ibid, p. 5.
‘Quite strange, really. I had decided to change that little preface’: Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 2: Journals EE–KK, ed. and trans. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, David Kangas, Bruce H. Kirmmse, George Pattison, Vanessa Rumble and K. Brian Söderquist (Princeton University Press, 2008), p. 157: JJ 93 (April 1843).
‘I have a room looking out on the water’: ibid, p. 162: JJ 109 (10 May 1843).
‘But the owner has married and therefore I am living like a hermit’: S. Kierkegaard, Letters and Documents, ed. and trans. Henrik Rosenmeier (Princeton University Press, 2009), pp. 151–2 – letter to Emil Boesen, 15 May 1843.
Since they parted he had prayed for her every day, often twice a day: See Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 3: Notebooks 1–15, ed. and trans. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, David Kangas, Bruce H. Kirmmse, George Pattison, Vanessa Rumble and K. Brian Söderquist (Princeton University Press, 2010), p. 435: NB15, 4 (August to November 1849).
‘better coffee than in Copenhagen, more newspapers, excellent service’: S. Kierkegaard, Letters and Documents, p. 97 – letter to P. J. Spang, 18 November 1841.
‘When one does not have any particular business in life, as I do not’: ibid, p. 151 – letter to Emil Boesen, 15 May 1843.
He used a notebook, labelled ‘Philosophica’: this is Notebook 13, which seems to date from December 1842, though in 1846 Kierkegaard added notes on Spinoza; see Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 3: Notebooks 1–15, pp. 731–9. The notes from Tenneman’s Geschichte der Philosophie continue in Notebook 14 (see ibid, pp. 767–8), which dates from the first months of 1843, and in Journal JJ (see Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 2: Journals EE–KK, pp. 453–66), part of which was written during the spring of 1843.
a series of unanswered questions: see Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 3: Notebooks 1–15, pp. 409–11.
‘The secret of all existence: movement’: ibid, p. 307: NB13, 34.
his small, slanting hand: Kierkegaard’s handwriting was unusually variable: it changed not only over the years, but over the course of single texts. Annelise Garde provides a graphologist’s analysis of Kierkegaard’s handwriting (in Danish, with an English summary and some interesting specimens), in ‘Grafologisk undersøgelse af Søren Kierkegaards håndskrift i årene 1831–1855’, Kierkegaardiana, 10 (1977), pp. 200–238.
‘The question of repetition will play a very important role in modern philosophy’: S. Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling / Repetition, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton University Press, 1983), pp. 131, 148.
the new tunnel under the Thames: the first tunnel under the River Thames opened on 25 May 1843, just before Kierkegaard left Berlin.
‘the possibility and meaning of repetition’: Fear and Trembling / Repetition, p. 150.
‘Gendarmenmarkt is certainly the most beautiful square in Berlin’: ibid, pp. 151–2.
‘My mind was sterile, my troubled imagination constantly conjured up’: ibid, pp. 169–70.
‘handsome appearance, large glowing eyes, and flippant air’: ibid, pp. 133–5.
‘It was obvious that he was going to be unhappy’: ibid, p. 136.
‘A poetic creativity awakened in him’: ibid, pp. 137–8.
‘Transform yourself into a contemptible person’: ibid, p. 142.
‘for there was no trace of anything really stirring’: the first part of this passage was deleted from the margin of the manuscript, and did not make it into the published version. See ibid, pp. 184, 277.
‘Humanly speaking I have been fair to her’: Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 2: Journals EE–KK, pp. 164–5: JJ 115 (17 May 1843).
‘quite irritable, like any melancholic’: Fear and Trembling / Repetition, p. 180.
‘I am at the end of my tether. My whole being screams in self-contradiction’: ibid, p. 201.
‘Make me fit to be a husband’: ibid, p. 214.
That year he noted in his journal Socrates’s ‘very fine’ remark: see Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 2: Journals EE–KK, p. 169: JJ 131 (1843).
‘the main thing is that one is truly forthright with God’: ibid, p. 171: JJ 141 (1843).
‘Because I would otherwise die’: Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 5: Journals NB6–NB10, p. 189: NB8, 87 (November or December 1848).
‘are too wordy for me’: ibid, p. 25: NB6, 29 (July or August 1848).