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5 See Supplement, p. 164 ( Pap. IX A 216).

5 See Supplement, p. 164 ( Pap. IX A 216).

1 See, for example, Supplement, p. 288 (Pap. X6 B 145), and table of Kierkegaard’s published works, pp. xxiii–xxvii.

2 The first edition of 525 copies was sold out within three years. The second was an edition of 750 copies. During Kierkegaard’s lifetime there were nine second editions out of thirty-six titles (excluding the two earliest works; see note 65): Either/Or (1849), Works of Love (1852), For Self-Examination (1852), Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays (1852), The Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air (1854), Practice in Christianity (1855), This Must Be Said (1855), The Moment (1855), and The Concept of Anxiety (1855). In 1845 the eighteen discourses of 1843–1844 were remaindered to Philip G. Philipsen, and in 1847 the other nine books in print at the time were remaindered to Carl A. Reitzel..

3 See Kierkegaard: Letters and Documents, Letters 152–57, KW XXV.

4 See Supplement, p. 193 (Pap. X1 A 351).

5 See Supplement, p. 164 (Pap. IX A 216).

6 See Supplement, pp. 185–86 (Pap. X1 A 147).

7 See Supplement, p. 178 (Pap. X1 A 95).

8 See Supplement, p. 164 (Pap. IX A 216).

9 See Supplement, p. 162 (Pap. IX A 171).

10 See Supplement, p. 161 (Pap. IX A 171), and also pp. 163–64 (Pap. IX A 215).

11 See JP II 1957; VI 6804 (Pap. IX A 221; X4 A 558).

12 See Supplement, pp. 161, 283–84 (Pap. IX A 171; X6 B 4:3).

13 See Supplement, pp. 248–50 (Pap. X3 A 413).

14 JP II 1957 (Pap. IX A 221). See also Supplement, pp. 164–66, 187, 246–47, 286–88 (Pap. IX A 218, 234; X1 A 235; X3 A 258; X4 A 383; X6 B 145).

15 See Supplement, p. 168 (Pap. IX A 288), and also p. 162 (IX A 172).

16 See Supplement, p. 288 (Pap. X6 B 145).

17 See Supplement, p. 283 (Pap. X6 B 4:3).

18 See Supplement, p. 288 (Pap. X5 B 145); see also pp. 164, 184–85, 193–94, 261–63 (Pap. IX A 216; X1 A 118, 351; X5 B 201, 249).

19 See Supplement, pp. 156–59 (Pap. VIII2 B 179:1–6, 181).

20 See Supplement, p. 159 (Pap. VIII2 B 186).

21 See Supplement, pp. 159–60 (Pap. VIII2 B 188, 196).

22 See Supplement, p. 186 (Pap. X1 A 147).

23 See Supplement, p. 169 (Pap. IX A 293).

24 See Supplement, p. 197 (Pap. X1 A 501).

25 See Supplement, pp. 174, 187–88, 212–14 (Pap. X1 A 74, 250; X2 A 106).

26 See Supplement, p. 209 (Pap. X2 A 89).

27 See Supplement, p. 188 (Pap. X1 A 250).

28 See Supplement, p. 177 (Pap. X1 A 79); see also pp. 174–77, 187–88, 201–02 (Pap. X1 A 78, 250, 546).

29 See Supplement, pp. 209–10 (Pap. X2 A 89).

30 See Supplement, pp. 174, 176, 177 (Pap. X1 A 78).

31 See Supplement, p. 222 (Pap. X2 A 171).

32 See Supplement, pp. 193–96 (Pap. X1 A 351, 422).

33 See pp. 101–26 for “Two Notes.” Part of the third note was used later in the preface to Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays.

34 See Supplement, p. 229 (Pap. X2 A 192).

35 See Supplement, p. 178 (Pap. X1 A 95). On 1848–49, see also pp. 212–14 (Pap. X2 A 106); JP VI 6801 (Pap. X4 A 545).

36 See Supplement, pp. 206–07 (Pap. X1 A 678).

37 JP VI 6317 (Pap. X1 A 56).

38 See Supplement, pp. 234–35 (Pap. X5 B 143).

39 See Supplement, pp. 236–37 (Pap. X2 A 147); see also p. 203 (Pap. X1 A 567).

40 See Sickness unto Death, pp. ix, xx-xxii, KW XIX.

41 See Supplement, p. 174 (Pap. X1 A 74) and note 25, and also pp. 181–84 (Pap. X1 A 97, 116, 117).

42 See Supplement, pp. 188–89 (Pap. X1 A 266), and also p. 251 (Pap. X3 A 423).

43 See Supplement, p. 284 (Pap. X4 A 351).

44 Letters, Letter 235, KW XXV. Cf. JP VI 6332 (Pap. X5 A 153).

45 See Supplement, pp. 230, 242 (Pap. X2 A 215, 427).

46 See Supplement, pp. 256–58 (Pap. X5 B 261, 262, 263, 264).

47 Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays, in Without Authority, p. 163, KW XVIII (SV XII 265).

48 Søren Kierkegaard International Bibliografi, ed. Jens Himmelstrup (Copenhagen: Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck, 1962), p. 12.

49 Flyve-Posten, 175, August 7, 1851.

50 Byens-Avis, 187, August 9, 1851.

51 Kjøbenhavnsposten, 1, January 2, 1856; Letters, Letter 283, KW XXV (SV X 322). Luise Heiberg was the subject of The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress, by Inter et Inter. In On My Work (p. 8), Kierkegaard acknowledged authorship of the piece and therefore sent her a copy.

52 Flyve-Posten, 215, September 16, 1851. See Supplement, p. 287 (Pap. X4 A 408).

53 See Supplement, p. 285 (Pap. X4 A 373).

54 On Rudelbach, see “An Open Letter,” in The Corsair Affair and Articles Related to the Writings, pp. xxxvi-xxxviii, 51–59, KW XIII (SV XIII 436–44). On Bloch, see Kierkegaard’s “What Cruel Punishment,” (a reply to an article by Bloch), in The Moment and Late Writings, pp. 56–59, and Supplement, pp. 367–71, KW XXIII (SV XIV 66–69 and 62–65).

55 Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach, “Synspunktet for min Forfatter-Virksomhed,” Evangelisk Ugeskrift, 4–5, January 20, 1860, p. 50.

56 Ibid., p. 63.

57 Ibid., pp. 65–66.

58 Jørgen Victor Bloch, “To Skrifter af S. Kierkegaard paany fremdragne,” Dansk Kirketidende, 28–29, 31–32, 34, July 12, 26, August 23, 1885, col. 451–58, 501–11, 538–43.

59 Ibid., col. 538.

60 Ibid., col. 541.

61 Ibid., col. 542.

62 See, for example, Walter Lowrie, Introduction, The Point of View (London: Oxford University Press, 1939), p. xiii. Lowrie, in Kierkegaard (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), p. 392, says of Point of View: “a religious autobiography so unique that it has no parallel in the whole literature of the world.”

63 See Supplement, p. 176 (Pap. X1 A 78).

64 See Supplement, p. 286 (Pap. X4 A 383). For a brief overview of the “total work,” see Historical Introduction, The Moment and Late Writings, KW XXIII.

65 Kierkegaard excluded from the authorship proper the first two works (KW I, II) that bore his name: From the Papers of One Still Living (September 7, 1838, a review of Hans Christian Andersen’s Only a Fiddler) and The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates (September 16, 1841), his university dissertation.

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