Index
INDEX
abolition: of being a Christian, 129–31
adherents: winning Christian, 51
Adler, Alfred P., 178, 181, 183, 324
admission(s): and individual, 17–18
and Mynster, 287
age, the: of disintegration, 119, 276–79
and ideality, 206
Kierkegaard’s view of, 180
misfortune of, 104
of passion and sagacity, 163
present demoralized, 264
religion and, 47–50
age (old): and youth, 218–19
alienation: of Kierkegaard, 162
of public, 10
America: forests of, 75
analogy: backward pupil, 191–92
ballast, 19
birds, wild and tame, 202
coachman, 290
diligent pupil, 96
excavation of fossils, 245–46
fisherman’s float, 249
fish in air, 20
fishing bait, 182
fish on line, 84
girl in love, 221
Guadalquibir River, 194, 199, 202, 204
invisible writing, 54
knotting thread, 20
legal documents, 131–32
mushrooms, 180
overripe fruit, 277
patient, 179
policeman, 78
sewing, 20
smoke-abatement, 125
spider, 6
stepfather, 192
street inspector, 78
sword, two-edged, 279–80
tacking, 286
teacher, 49–50
Titans, 122
unbroken horse, 290
unclaimed property, 121
wound, 280
yellow bunting, 96
Andersen, Hans Christian, 185
Kun en Spillemand [Only a Fiddler], xxiii, 332
“The Ugly Duckling,” 325
anonymity: of daily press, 57
of “4651,” 287–88
apologetics: as the old science of arms, 52
apostle: as constrained, 230
Kierkegaard not an, 78
aristocrat(s): and Kierkegaard, 157
Aristotle: Aristoteles graece, 316
on irony, 64
Rhetoric, 316
armed neutrality: idea of, 136–41, 320
as Kierkegaard’s position, 129, 183, 299
human race as, 122–23
and number, 126
and ordination, 261
author(s): approach of, 43–44, 47, 53
as Christian, xi
idea of, 211
Kierkegaard on becoming an, 84–90
as polemical, 67–68
writing for, 153–54. See also writer; writing
authorship
and Christianity, 7, 55–56, 88, 90, 92, 272–73
Kierkegaard’s, 212–17
awareness as goal, 12, 58, 124, 224–25, 253, 256
best things in, 171
central issue of, 8, 63, 90, 92, 235
comprehensive plan of, xviii, 6–12, 41–97, 55–56, 76–77, 165–67, 182, 185, 193, 213, 217, 283, 286
contemplated lectures on, xiii
coherence of, xiii
definition of, 315
dialectical redoubling of, 34–37
and direct communication, 7, 166, 288
distinctive category of, 154
equivocalness of, 29–32
esthetic works, 41–56
as beginning of, xi
as deception, 24, 32, 58, 77, 86, 193, 232, 266
as emptying out, 86
Kierkegaard’s opinion of, 92–93
as pious fraud, 161
as poetic emptying, 77–78, 85–86
and religious works, 9, 29–32, 184
in whole, 238
and faith, 253
and Governance, xviii, 71–90, 182, 208, 210, 255, 292–93
as immediacy in reflection, 292
incomplete explanation of in Point of View, 25–26
and indirect communication (see communication, indirect)
as love for neighbor, 20
and the maieutic, 166–67
midpoint of, 9
and the momentary, 262
from public to single individual, 263
as nothing new in, 235
omission of From the Papers of One Still Living and The Concept of Irony, xxiii, 315
one idea in, 283
as own upbringing and development, xiii, 12, 125, 165, 231, 235–36, 255–56, 259, 284, 287, 289–90
as penitent, 24
and personal disclosure, 161, 185, 187–88, 198–200
as polemical against illusion of Christendom, 23
on posthumous publication, 189
pseudonymous works: viewed in totality, 53–56
and youth, 218–19
on publication of autobiographical works, 231
from reflection to simplicity, 7, 94, 259, 261–63
religious nature of whole, 23–24, 55, 283
as religiousness in reflection, xiii
series: lower, higher, and upbuilding, 204
parallel, ix, 30–32, 53, 164, 184, 193, 232, 276, 288
and serving the truth, 211
silence: as duty, 23
and single individual, 9–11, 113–24, 185, 190, 271
strategy of, 15–20
survey of as Postscript to On My Work or to “Three Notes,” 290–94
termination of, xvi–xvii, 160, 171–72, 177–78, 184, 196, 232, 247, 266, 283, 294
three divisions of, 29–32
the turn in, 216–17
understanding of, xiii, xviii, 236
universalizing the particular, 189–90
and willing one thing, xx, 6, 259
working against oneself in, 9–10, 59, 263
works remaindered, ix
writing reviews, 332
writings: chronological listing of, xxiii–xxvii
dedication to “that single individual,” 105–12, 151–53
on God-relation, 71–72
most valuable, x
and personal life, 57–70
on publication of, xiii–xix, xv–xvi, 194–96
second editions, ix
awakening, 203
to make someone else, 12, 58, 124, 224–25, 253, 256, 266
ballast. See analogy
balloting: and reformation, 133–34
Berlingske Tidende, 319
BIBLE
Kierkegaard’s favorite Gospel, 250
New Testament:
I Corinthians: 9:24, 319
II Corinthians: 12:7, 318, 331
John: 14:6, 319
7:47, 325
12:49, 326
17:11–18, 328
Mark: 1:3, 327
2:21, 321
9:49, 325
Matthew: 3:3, 327
9:16, 321
16:26, 315
Philippians: 3:14, 319
Romans: 8:16, 316
Old Testament:
Ecclesiastes: 3:7, 314
Samuel: 15:22, 318
birds, wild and tame. See analogy
Bloch, Jørgen Victor: Kierkegaard’s reply to, xx
review of On My Work, xx
“To Skrifter af S. Kierkegaard paany fremdragne,” xxi
bookbinder, 207
boredom, boring: the good as, 92
boys: as judges, 65
Brandt, F.: Kierkegaard og Pengene, 322
Brandt, Sebastian: Narrenschiff, 316
Brazil, 245
Brorson, Hans Adolph: “Op al den Ting,” 22, 314
Psalmer og aandelige Sange, 314
calling: Kierkegaard’s, 158
caricature: of Kierkegaard, 318
Christ: and the crowd, 109, 190–91
and followers, 125–26
and individual, 108
Kierkegaard’s belief in, 55
as prototype, 131
Christendom: becoming a Christian in, 8
being a Christian in, 130–31
difference from paganism, 52
and ideality, 206
illusion of, x–xi, 8, 23, 41–44, 48–49, 88, 163, 289
illusion of being Christian in, xi
introduction of Christianity into, xv, 42, 123–24, 172, 264
as Jewish piety, 209
need for different strategy in, 52–53
and omission of imitation, 289
proclamation of Christianity in, 56
as shift from Christianity, xxii–xxiii
and the single individual, 155–56
Christensen, Anders Westergaard, 171, 323
Christian: abolition of being a, 129–31
and total thought of authorship, 55–56
becoming one in Christendom, 8
being one in Christendom, 130–31
ideal picture of, 129–34, 139–40
intensification in being a, 245
Kierkegaard’s denial of being a, xi, 56
offense in becoming a, 265–66
prototype of a, 131
the single individual as decisive for, 121
state, 201
Christianity: casting into reflection, 97, 212–13
on comprehending, 167
essence of, 254
and ethical rigor, 201
as existence-communication, 228
as existential, 286
as gentle or rigorous, 16, 229
introduction into Christendom, xv, 42, 123–24, 172, 264
and Kierkegaard, 79–80, 93, 161, 200, 221
and Kierkegaard’s authorship, 272–73
modification of, 131–32
not abolished as doctrine, 129–31
and numbers, 16
and obedience, 121–22
and pathos, 248
perfectibility of, 180
as polemical, 130
proclamation of in Christendom, 56
rebellion against, 121–22
reduced to esthetics, 130
and reflection, 167
and the single individual, 205
Church: established or militant, 250
coachman. See analogy
collisions, Christian: and Kierkegaard, 247
common people: Kierkegaard’s association with, 60, 157, 170
Kierkegaard’s sympathy with, 81, 90, 117
communication: Christianity as existence-, 228
doubly reflected, 18
ethical-religious, 227
impersonal, 57–58
and reflection, 7
witnessing as, 187. See also communication, direct; communication, indirect
communication, direct, xi–xii, 163, 166, 230, 248–50, 291
Kierkegaard’s authorship ends with, 7, 288
point of view as, 7
reflection on, x
and truth, 7
use of, 299–300. See also communication; communication, indirect
communication, indirect, 248–50
and Kierkegaard, 163, 164, 166–67, 224, 230
and pseudonymous authors, 288
and reflection, x, 56. See also communication; communication, direct
communism: and religiousness, 180
composure: Kierkegaard’s, 132–33
concepts: inversion of Christian, 264
confession(s): and individual, 17–18
and truth, 17
congregation: and public, 265–66
and single individual, 10, 265–66
contemporaries: view of Kierkegaard, xii, 95–97, 214–15, 248, 278
conversation: with Mynster, 285–86
on street, 170
Copenhagen
buildings and institutions: Vor Frelsers Church, 330
and environs: Frederiksberg, 330
public as practitioner of irony, 63–69
streets: corner of Rosenborggade and Tornebuskegade, 323
Tornebuskegaden, 208
treatment of Kierkegaard, 168–69
corrective: as category of reflection, 205
and established order, 18
Corsair, The, 332
affair, 112, 114, 117, 175, 192, 215, 278, 287, 316, 323–24, 325, 328
and censor, 316
as good deed, 92
and immortalization of Frater Taciturnus, 66, 114, 243, 312
and irony, 64
and Kierkegaard’s trousers, 204, 215, 318, 326
Kierkegaard’s view of, 243–44
as public benefaction, 10. See also under Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye: works cited
counseling: beginning point of, 45–47
courage: and crowd, 108
crowd, the: as authority, 112, 275
behavior of, 191
and courage, 108
definition of, 107–08
and earthly goals, 106
as evil, 277
and government, 253
as individuals, 112
and the interesting, 91–92
Kierkegaard attacked by, 62–69, 201, 278
as practitioner of irony, 63–69
and the public, 10–11, 68, 265
and single individual, 18, 265
and Socrates, 42
and truth-witness, 109
as untruth, 106–12; 126, 153, 275
writer and, 59
Curtius, Marcus, 317
daimonic, the: good or evil, 282
and indirect method, 249
danger, double, 321
Dansk Kirketidende, xxi
“Dauphin, for use of the,” 321
death: Kierkegaard’s thinking of, x, 97, 165, 177, 197, 294
situations of, 152–53
deception: esthetic writing as, 58, 77, 86, 232, 266
pseudonymous works as, 53–55
into truth, 7
into truth and Socrates, 53
dedication: of On My Work as an Author, xix, 256–58
to Regine Olsen, xix, 230, 242, 257–58, 330
to “that single individual,” 105–12, 151–53
degree, to a certain, 19
demands: of the times, 88–89, 104
Denmark: financial situation of, 313
Kierkegaard’s love of, 170
Moltke-Hvidt government, 314
war with Prussia, 313
depression, 79–83
dialectic: of the single individual, 115
dialectic, dialectical: Kierkegaard as, 294
movement in authorship, 9
redoubling of authorship, 34–37
Diapsalmata, 35
diligent pupil. See analogy
Diogenes Laertius: De vitis philosophorum, 321
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 321
direct communication: and loss of the interesting, xxi, 91–94. See also communication
disagreement: and misunderstanding, 113–14
disclosure: by Kierkegaard, 168
discourses: not sermons, 261
disguise: esthetic writings as, 32
disintegration: age of, 119, 276–79
and the moment, 279
disobedience: as doubt, 123
Don Quixote, 206
double danger, 321
doubleness: of the single individual, 115
doubt: as disobedience, 123
and numbers, 155
du, 316, Kierkegaard’s use of, 62
duplexity: of authorship, 29–37, 85
eccentricity: and Socrates and Kierkegaard, 68–69
either/or: and ethics, 279
as battleground, 289
God or men, 282
engagement: Kierkegaard’s, 242, 325, 329
envy: and laughter, 118
epigram: Kierkegaard’s life as, 96
equality, 319
dream of politics, 103–04
and wordliness, 104
Erslew, Thomas Hansen: Forfatter-Lexicon, “Peter Ludwig Møller,” 323
established Church: and ideality, 250
overthrow of, 250
established order: and opposition, 18
and Practice in Christianity, 18–19, 252–53
esthetics: Christianity reduced to, 130
esthetic writing: as deception, 53, 77, 266
and the religious, 7–8
eternity: Kierkegaard’s longing for, 97
ethics, ethical: and either/or, 279
Kierkegaard’s life as expression of, 278
need for, 277
rigor and Christianity, 201–02
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 329
Evangelisk Ugeskrift, xxi
evil: crowd as, 277
and the daimonic, 249
excavation of fossils. See analogy
exclusiveness: Kierkegaard on, 90
existence: gesticulation of, 68
and pathos, 218–19
extraordinary, the: and established order, 253
Fædrelandet, ix, 8, 61, 114, 312, 316, 317, 319, 322, 323
faith: and Kierkegaard’s writings, 253
Faktum, 318
fanaticism: Kierkegaard on, 132–33
fisherman’s float. See analogy
fish in air. See analogy
fishing bait. See analogy
fish on line. See analogy
flaneur, 61
Flyve-Posten, xx, 215, 287, 332
For Literatur og Kritik, 330
forlovet, 318
future, the: Kierkegaard and, 95
genius: as immanence and immediacy, xviii
Kierkegaard as, xviii, 95, 189, 193–94
nature of, 189
as without authority, 6
Gerhardt, Paul: “Befiel du diene Wege,” 329
“Commit Thy Ways Confiding,” 250
gesticulation(s): of existence, 68
Gi(j)ødwad, Jens Finsteen, 60
and Fædrelandet, 316
girl in love. See analogy
goal: and the crowd, 106
and individual, 106–07
God: and government, 268–70
as infinite love, 284–85
Kierkegaard’s gratitude to, 289
love of, 192
and socialism, 179–80
speaking before, 190
God-relation: Kierkegaard’s, 71–76
Goldschmidt, Meïr: and The Corsair, 316
and immortalization of Frater Taciturnus, 66, 114, 243, 312
and rabble-barbarianism, 64
good, the: boring category of, 92
and the daimonic, 249
Gospel. See Bible
Governance: and authorship, xviii, 71–90, 182, 208, 210, 255, 292–93
government: and the crowd, 253
fault of, 19
and fear of people, 269–70
and love of neighbor, 270
Mynster and Kierkegaard on, 285
and obedience to God, 268–70
opposition to, 18–19
doctrine of as decisive, 261
and gratitude, 254
misuse of, 248
and Practice in Christianity, 288
and prototype, 219–20
as stopping place, 229
and striving, 254
gratitude: and grace, 254
grave, 168
inscription on Kierkegaard’s, 118, 154
grave site: speaking at, 152
Grundtvig, Nicolai Frederik Severin: Bloch on, xxii
and Kierkegaard, xxii
and matchless discovery, 316
Guadalquibir River. See analogy
Gyllembourg-Ehrensvaard, Thomasine: Two Ages, 332
Heiberg, Johan Ludvig, xx, 330
Heiberg, Luise: as subject of Crisis, xx
Holberg, Ludvig: Comedies, 318
Danske Skue-Plads, 318
Den politiske Kandestøber, 318
human being: assumed knowledge of, 141
Socrates on, 141
humanity: religion the true, 104
human race: as authority, 122–23
Kierkegaard on, 87–88
human, the universally: possibility of inwardness, 25–26
humorist: Frater Taciturnus as, 263
hymn: Kierkegaard’s favorite, 250, 329–30
idea: Kierkegaard a sufferer for an, 95
ideal, ideality: and age, 206
and Christendom, 206
and established Church, 250
and judgment on Kierkegaard, 15
and picture of being a Christian, 139–40
and picture of Christianity, 129–31
and poetic presentation, 132–33, 212
and youth, 206
idler: Kierkegaard seen as, 61
illusion(s): of Christendom, x–xi, 8, 23, 41–44, 48–49, 88, 163, 289
and the Socratic, 163
imaginary construction: and Frater Taciturnus, 263
imitation: omitted in Christendom, 289
immediacy: Kierkegaard’s lack of, 83
and reflection, 292
immortalization of: Frater Taciturnus (The Corsair), 66, 114, 243, 312
impersonality: of daily press, 57–58
incognito: esthetic writings as, 58
indirect method: and the daimonic, 249
need for in Christendom, 52–53
and removal of illusion, 43–44, 54. See also communication, indirect
individual(s): contempt for, 117
and goal, 106–07
and the others, 106
and the race, 107
and the universal singular, 276
instrument: Kierkegaard as, 163–64
Intelligensblade, 316
intensity, intensification: in being a Christian, 245
interesting, the: Bloch on loss of indirect communication, xxi
and direct communication, 91–94
Kierkegaard’s loss of in Point of View, ix, 91–94
Kierkegaard’s rejection of, 198, 262–63
invisible writing. See analogy
inward deepening, 137
inwardness: incommunicable, 292
irony: Aristotelian view of, 64
Kierkegaard as master of, 66–67, 117
public as practitioner of, 63–69
jacking up price, 95, 202, 205, 215
Jewish piety, 209
John, the Baptizer, 230
journalism: and demoralization, 64–66
demoralizing, 57–58
judgment: absence of on others, 15
as self-disclosure, 18
κατ’ έξοχήν, 8
Kempis, Thomas à, 222
Of the Imitation of Christ, 327
Kierkegaard, Michael Peter (father): death of, 82, 247, 286, 315, 318, 328, 332
and Mynster, 328
and Søren Kierkegaard, 79–80, 324, 325
Kierkegaard, Nicoline Christine (sister), 328
Kierkegaard, Peter Christian (brother): as publisher of Point of View, 22, 314
Kierkegaard, Petrea Severine (sister), 328
KIERKEGAARD, SOREN AABYE
alienation of, 162
attacked by public, 62–69, 190, 201
as author, 223–24
Christian, 129–41
authorship of (see authorship, Kierkegaard’s
and awakening, 203
on becoming an author, 84–90
birthday of, 325
calling of, 158
on calling self Christian, 15
caricature of, 318
as Christian, xi, 56, 134–36, 198
and Christian collisions, 247
and Christianity, 79–80, 93, 161, 166, 200, 221
and common people, 60, 90, 117, 157
and communication (see communication, direct; communication, indirect)
and composure, 132–33
and consciousness of sin, 196
contemporaries’ view of, xii, 95–97, 214–15, 248, 278
denial of being Christian, xi, 56
and Denmark, 170
and depression, 79–83, 193, 196, 200
as dialectician, 294
engagement of, 242, 249–50, 325, 329
and the esthetic, 5–6
as ethicist, 278
on fanaticism, 132–33
and finances, 171–72, 184, 186, 196–97, 200, 208, 216, 224, 322–23
and the future, 95
and future judgment of, 278–79
as genius, xviii, 95, 189, 193–94
and God-relation, 71–76
and God’s love, 192
health of, 169–70
historical significance of, 154
on human race, 87–88
and the ideal, 210
as idler, 61
inscription on grave, 118, 154
and insignia Either/Or, 289
as instrument, 163–64
and lack of immediacy, 83
and laughter, 114
life of: as epigram, 96
as satire, 96
and life-weariness, 197
as listener, 230
longing for eternity, 97
and lover to come, 69–70
as master of irony, 66–67, 117
misfortune of, 82–83
misunderstood by contemporaries, 25
and Mynster, 285–86
not a truth-witness, 119, 277–78
not changed with age, 29
not exclusive, 90
not the ideal, 206
as opposition, 18
as pastor, 86, 157–58, 160–61, 162, 171, 184, 196–97, 208, 210, 212, 224, 231–33, 245, 259, 261, 266
as penitent, xv–xvi, 24, 162, 174, 187, 193, 201, 238, 263, 285
as philosopher, 5, 77, 179–80, 282
as poet, xvi, 5, 77, 179–80, 187, 194, 199, 235, 253, 278, 282
dialectical, 162
religious, 84–86
and poet-existence, 198
as poetic-dialectical genius, xv
and poet to come, 95
as pre-pledged, 192
and presentiment of future, 196, 282
proposed lectures, xiii
proposed titles and works:
“Armed Neutrality,” 302
“The Collected Works of Completion,” xvi, 172, 198, 216, 229, 234–35, 326
“The Collected Works of Consummation,” 173, 216, 229
“A Cycle of Ethical-Religious Essays,” xvii, 164, 174, 178–84, 323, 324
“Friday Discourses,” 207
“Mag. Kierkegaard’s Works as an Author,” 236–37
“My Standpoint as Editor of Some Pseudonymous Writings,” 302
“My Strategy and On Herr Professor Nielsen’s Relation to My Work as an Author,” 267
“A Possible Explanation of Magister Kierkegaard’s Authorship,” 177
“Report to History,” 238
on sin and reconciliation, 202
“Three Notes,” 178, 181–84, 186–88
“The Whole in One Word,” xvi, 234–35
pseudonyms:
Anti-Climacus, 15, 201–03, 208, 213, 216, 219–20, 223, 225–29, 241, 250–51, 252, 268, 288, 301, 326, 327
as a higher pseudonym, xvii, 6
and Johannes Climacus, xvii, 199, 230
as imaginatively constructing humorist, 263
immortalized by The Corsair, 66, 114, 243, 312
higher and lower, 204
Inter et Inter, ix, xx, 8, 32, 322
Johannes Climacus, xii, 220–21, 252, 315
and Anti-Climacus, xvii, 199, 230
defense of or attack on Christianity, 221
denying Christianity, 8, 15, 43, 199
on pseudonymous writings, 291–93
Johannes de Silentio, xiv, 37, 176, 315
Kierkegaard’s relation to, xvii, 6, 246–47, 288
“The Book on Adler,” 181
and the maieutic, 7
and satire, 17
“The Seducer,” xii
as poetized personalities, xii
Quidam, 327
Victor Eremita, 35
pseudonymous works, 291–93
misuse of, xii
and the system, 118
and public, 18
and Rasmus Nielsen, 172
and reader, 36
and reading, 35–36
relation to Socrates and Christ, 55
and religion, 189
and residences, 171
as sacrifice, 81
and self-defense, 156–59
and signed works from right hand, ix, 193
and the speculative, 5–6
and subscription plan, xiii, 159–60
task of, x, 93–97, 124, 139–40, 173–74, 184, 212–13, 260–61, 268, 285
and wrong propagation, 125
in self-denial, 25
and theater intermission, 61
as thinker, 194
and thorn in flesh, 83
and thought of death, x, 97, 165, 177, 197, 294
thumbnail autobiography of, 191–92, 325
and travel, 171–72, 177, 188, 190
treatment of in Copenhagen, 168–69
and trousers, 96, 156, 204, 215, 318, 326
in twenty-fifth year, 82
and use of du, 62
as villain, 183
as voice, 230–31
as without authority, 6, 118, 174, 180–81, 235, 256, 261, 266
works cited:
“The Accounting,” xvi, xviii, 188, 190–93, 210, 231–32, 237–41, 243, 246, 259–75, 284, 290, 325, 328, 330
“The Activity of a Traveling Esthetician and How He Still Happened to Pay for the Dinner,” 243, 312, 317, 323
“Armed Neutrality,” xv, xvi, xviii, xix, 181, 195, 206–07, 209, 244–46, 299–301, 323, 324, 326, 328, 332
publication of, 301
The Book on Adler, xv, xvii, 324
Breve og Aktstykker vedrørende Søren Kierkegaard, 323
Christian Discourses, ix, 8, 69, 171, 178, 182, 193, 196, 207, 312, 317, 322, 323, 325, 326, 331
as religious writing, 29
The Concept of Anxiety, ix
as esthetic writing, 29
The Concept of Irony, 315, 317, 318, 321
Kierkegaard’s omission from authorship proper, xxiii, 315
Concluding Unscientific Postscript, xii, 6, 8, 10, 43, 90, 120, 165, 200, 243, 246–47, 288, 291–93, 312, 315, 318, 320, 321, 325, 327, 328, 332
as authorship’s midpoint, 9, 29, 31, 55, 63, 94
comic design of, 216
completion of manuscript, 63
future of, 220–21
publication of, 65
reception of, 215
and religious point of view in authorship, 55, 63
sales of, 204
The Corsair Affair and Articles Related to the Writings, xx, 312, 313, 316, 317, 318, 319, 323–24, 326, 328 (see also Corsair, The [separate entry])
The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress, ix, 30, 32, 164–65, 312, 322
on Luise Heiberg, xx
as religious writing, 29
“The Difference between a Genius and an Apostle,” 6, 318
“Does a Human Being Have the Right to Let Himself Be Put to Death for the Truth?” 324
Efterladte Papirer, xix
Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, 29, 31, 311, 312, 315, 326, 331
Either/Or, ix, 5, 8, 9, 35–37, 59, 60–61, 63, 77, 93, 120, 165, 178, 200, 212, 232, 259–61, 283, 289, 291, 315, 318, 320, 332
as esthetic writing, 29
and ethics, 279
and readers, 187
review of, 330
sales of, ix
second edition, ix–x, xiii, xviii, 6, 12, 23, 178, 181–83, 185–86, 189, 193, 291, 299, 315, 324
and transition from poetic to ethical existence, 78
Two Upbuilding Discourses concurrent with, 30
writing of, 85
Fear and Trembling, 37, 315, 317, 318, 326
as esthetic writing, 29
For Self-Examination, ix, 283, 331, 332
Bloch’s review of, xxi
Four Upbuilding Discourses (1843), 312, 315
Four Upbuilding Discourses (1844), 315
From the Papers of One Still Living, 332
Kierkegaard’s review of Only a Fiddler, xxiii
“The High Priest,” 328
Johannes Climacus, 221
Kierkegaard: Letters and Documents, ix, 315, 321, 322, 331
lectures on writings, 159
The Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air, ix, xviii, 193, 324, 325, 327
The Moment and Late Writings, ix, xx
On My Work as an Author, xvi, xviii, 190–93, 210–14, 229–31, 234, 244–45, 254–75, 284, 285, 287, 288, 289, 290, 325, 328, 331, 332
Bloch on, xx–xxii
and Christendom, xxii–xxiii
Mynster’s response to, xx, 285
outline of, 233–34
reception of, xix
Rudelbach on, xx–xxi
“Open Confession,” 61
Philosophical Fragments, 321
as esthetic writing, 29
The Point of View for My Work as an Author, x, xiii, xiv, xvi, xvii, xviii, 170, 174, 195, 203, 207, 209, 211–14, 229, 231, 237–41, 244–45, 274–76, 290, 315, 322, 323, 324, 326, 328, 332
Armed Neutrality as appendix to, 301
Bloch’s review of, xxi
compared to Augustine’s Confessions, xxii
conclusion of, 271–73
as direct communication, 271–72
exclusions from, 237
as incomplete explanation of authorship, 25–26
Kierkegaard’s estimate of, xxii, 176, 178
Kierkegaard’s loss of interest in, 91–94
Lowrie’s estimate of, xxii
manuscript finished, 169
not a defense, 24
publication of, xiv–xv, xix, 22, 174–78, 183, 186–87, 197–98, 201, 222–24, 314
reception of, xx
Rudelbach on, xx–xxi
Practice in Christianity, ix, xv, xvii, 164, 172–73, 186, 194, 201, 203–07, 209–10, 219, 225–26, 228–29, 234, 244–45, 248, 251, 283, 288, 300, 311, 313, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332
Armed Neutrality as appendix to, 301–02
as defense of established order, xvi, 18, 252–53
Kierkegaard’s estimate of, 178, 199, 207
as opposition to established order, 18, 252–53
Prefaces: as esthetic writing, 29
Repetition, 290, 318, 327, 332
as esthetic writing, 29
“Report to History,” xxii
“The Seducer’s Diary,” 36, 189, 288, 316
The Sickness unto Death, xv, xvi, xvii, 6, 172, 186, 194, 199, 201, 203, 207, 217, 226, 234, 283, 311, 314, 323, 326, 327, 331
Stages on Life’s Way, 318
as esthetic writing, 29
and P. L. Møller, 92
“The Tax Collector,” 328
This Must Be Said, ix
Three Devotional Discourses, 6
Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays, 6, 209, 241, 326, 328
“Three Notes,” 181–84, 193, 195, 207, 231, 233–34, 237–41, 243, 273, 274–83, 290, 324
contents of, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii, 274, 325
Three Upbuilding Discourses (1843), 312, 315
Three Upbuilding Discourses (1844), 315
Two Ages, 10, 119, 265, 285, 289, 313, 320, 321, 331, 332
Kierkegaard’s omission from authorship proper, 315
nature of, 31
Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays, ix, xviii, 6, 240, 284, 285, 317, 322, 324, 325, 327, 331
Two Ethical-Religious Essays, xvii, 6, 193–94, 311, 318, 324, 325
“Two Notes,” xviii, 101, 240, 274, 324
postscript to, 125–26
Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843), 6, 8, 9, 32, 34, 36, 86, 164, 165, 232–33, 261, 312, 315, 318, 325, 331
Either/Or concurrent with, ix, 29
Two Upbuilding Discourses (1844), 315
and Kierkegaard’s reader, 36
Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, 8, 10, 210, 239, 312, 318, 322, 331
dedication in, 105
as religious writing, 29
“Upbuilding Reading,” 159–60
“What Cruel Punishment,” xx
Without Authority, xix, 15, 172, 266, 311, 317, 318, 324, 327, 330
“The Woman Who Was a Sinner,” 328
Works of Love, ix, 8, 120, 320, 321, 322
as religious writing, 29
and writing, 57–70
Kjobenhavnsposten, 215
knotting thread. See analogy
Kofoed-Hansen, Hans Peter, 250, 330
Kts, 37
Kunst/kunsterisk, 325
laughter: as attack, 65–67
and envy, 118
Kierkegaard as friend of, 114
leading another, 45–47
left hand: and pseudonymous authors, ix, 193
legal documents. See analogy
legs: criticism of Kierkegaard, 96, 318
leniency: and rigorousness of Christianity, 16, 229
Lessing, Gottfried Ephraim, 120
Emilia Galotti, 320
life-weariness, 326
and Kierkegaard, 197
listener: Kierkegaard as, 231
literary: situation of Denmark, 5, 116
Living Word, 316
and Grundtvig, 42
Livy: From the Founding of the City, 317
longing: Kierkegaard’s for eternity, 97
lover: Kierkegaard’s, 69–70
Lund, Henrik Ferdinand, 328
Luno, Christian Peter Bianco, 63, 243, 316
Luther: En christilige Postille, 328
and elements of Christian life, 246
Kierkegaard’s reading of, 247
misuse of, 17
“Sermon on the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity,” 328
“Sermon on Fourth Sunday after Easter,” 328
“Sermon on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity,” 329
Madvig, Johan Nicolai, 216, 226, 327
and Christendom, 289
and esthetic writing, xi–xii, 7–9
and pseudonymous writers, 293
Marcus Curtius, 317
market town, 318
Kierkegaard genius in, 95
martyr, martyrdom, 136–37
of the future, 280–83
Kierkegaard, for an idea, 95
and order of precedence, 191–93
and reflection, 281
as ruler, 281–82
Socrates, for intellectuality, 191
“matchless discovery,” 316
mente, 46
μετάβασις εἰς ἄλλο γένος, xxiii, 286
method: maieutic, xi–xii
misunderstanding: and disagreement, 113–14
and triviality, 113–14
modification: of Christianity, 131–32
Møller, N. C. (bookbinder), 207, 326
Møller, Peter Ludvig, 318
“Et Besøg i Sorø [A Visit to Sorø]”, 323, 328
as blather and grinning, 65
Gæa, 323
Kierkegaard on Møller and The Corsair, 65–66, 215, 323
and “Seducer’s Diary,” 92
and Stages, 92
“Til Frater Taciturnus,” 319
ubi P. L. Møller, ibi Corsaren, 323
Moltke-Hvidt government, 314
moment, the momentary: and authorship, 262
and disintegration, 279
monastic movement, 302
movements: religious and political, 178
mushrooms. See analogy
Mynster, Jakob Peter, 201, 216, 226, 327
and admission, 287
error of, 219
and Michael P. Kierkegaard, 328
Kierkegaard’s conversation with, 285–86
Kierkegaard’s reading sermons by, 328
and Luther, 246
pseudonym of, 37
response to On My Work, xx, 285
Yderligere Bidrag, 332
Nathanson, Mendel Levin, 319
neighbor: love of, 111
Newman, Cardinal: Apologia pro Vita Sua, xxii
New Testament. See Bible
Nielsen, Michael, 321
Nielsen, Rasmus, 165, 172, 322
nobody: being a, 156
numbers, numerical, 18
as authority, 126
and Christianity, 16
crowd as, 107
and disintegration, 279
and doubt, 155
and preaching, 106
and truth, 126
obedience: and Christianity, 121–22
objectivity: and subjectivity, 185
Oehlenschläger, Adam Gottlob: Alladin, 317–18
Poetiske Skrifter, 318
offense: middle term in becoming a Christian, 265–66
Old Testament. See Bible
death of father, 327
dedications to, xix, 230, 242, 257–58, 330
and Either/Or, 189
Kierkegaard’s engagement to, 242, 249–50, 329
letter to, 331
Olsen, Regine Frederikke, 330
Olsen, Terkild, 203, 226, 326, 330
one thing, willing, xx, 6, 259
ordination: and authority, 261
orthodox, the: criticism of, 47
others, the: and individual, 106
outsider: Kierkegaard as, 82–83
overripe fruit. See analogy pantheism, 122–23, 155
pastoral seminary: Mynster’s idea of, 286
pastor(s): Kierkegaard as rural, 86, 157–58, 162, 171, 184, 196–97, 208, 210, 212, 224, 231, 259, 261, 266
kind needed, 179
as poet, 217–18
pathos: and Christianity, 248
existential, 218–19
patient. See analogy
penitent: Kierkegaard as, xv–xvi, 24, 162, 174, 187, 193, 238, 285
perfectibility: of Christianity, 180
peripatetic: Kierkegaard as, 58–61, 157
Philipsen, Philip Gerson, ix
philosopher(s): to come, 283
Kierkegaard as, 179–80
as lover of wisdom, 137
Phister, J. Ludvig, 207
piety: Jewish, 209
Dialogues, 312
Gorgias, 320
Theaetetus, 312
plow. See analogy
Plutarch: “Caius Marius,” 319
Lives (Vitae parallelae), 319
poet, poetic: esthetic works as emptying, 77–78, 85–86
-existence, 224
as ideal presentation, 327
Kierkegaard as, 84–86, 162, 179–80, 187, 194, 199, 235, 253
Kierkegaard’s to come, 95
and presentation of ideality, 132–33, 212
and religion, 217–18
polemics, polemical: in Christianity, 130
policeman. See analogy
politics: dream of, 103–04
nature of, 103–04
Pope Paul IV, 316
power: and tyrants, 281
preaching: to full or empty church, 152
and numbers, 106
on street, 252
subjectivity or objectivity in, 251–52
presentiment: and Kierkegaard, 196, 282
press, the: anonymity of, 57
as disaster, 168
and truth, 110
price: jacking up, 95, 202, 205, 215
prototype: of a Christian, 131
and grace, 219–20
pseudonymity: Kierkegaard’s use of, 86, 119
and reader, xi. See also under Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye
pseudonymous authors: and left hand, 36
as poetized personalities, 288. See also under Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye
public: alienation of, 10
Kierkegaard attacked by, 62–69, 190, 201
as practitioner of irony, 63–69
and single individual, 10–11
public opinion: as blather and grinning, 65
punishment: boys as judges of, 65
mode of, 19
pupil, backward. See analogy: backward pupil
Pythagoras: as philosopher, 137
rabble-barbarianism, 64–68, 112, 175
race, the: and individual, 107
Rammel, E.: Kierkegaard og Pengene, 322
reader: and pseudonymity, xi
reading: aloud, 283–84
rebellion: against Christianity, 121–22
and reflection, 122
recognizability and unrecognizability, 289
redoubling, 9
reduplication, 332
and dialectical method, 9
non-, 332
reflection: and authorship, xiii, 7, 55–56, 97, 212–13, 283
and Christianity, 7, 93, 167, 212–13
and immediacy, 292
and indirect communication, 56
and rebellion, 122
religiousness in, xiii
Reformation: as political and religious, 178
reformation: and balloting, 133–34
Reitzel, Carl Andreas, ix, 195, 226, 325, 327
religion, the religious: and age, 47–50
and esthetic writing, 7–8
and Kierkegaard, 189
and poet, 217–18
and politics, 103–04
religious life: and suffering, 229
religiousness: and communism, 180
report to history: Point of View as, 21
requirement: and grace, 16
right hand: and signed authors, ix, 193
rigorousness: and gentleness of Christianity, 16, 229
Rohde, H. P: Auktionsprotokol, 326
Rørdam, T. S., 330
Roskilde-Konvents Psalmebog, 329
Rudelbach, Andreas Gottlob: “An Open Letter,” xx
on Point of View, xx–xxi
“Synspunktet for min Forfatter-Virksomhed,” xxi
sacrifice: Kierkegaard as, 81
sagacity: of present age, 163
satire: godly and profane, 17
Kierkegaard’s life as, 96
need for, 17
Schlegel, Johan Frederik: letter to, xix, 331
science of arms: new, 52
scientific-scholarly, the: and being, 130
and existence, 130
Scribe, Augustin Eugène: Puf! eller Verden vil bedrages, 316
self-disclosure: Kierkegaard on, 168, 291
sermons: and discourses, 261
severity: in attitude of contemporaries, 214–15
sewing. See analogy
Shakespeare, William: Henry IV, 22, 314
Richard III, 317
significance, historical: of Kierkegaard, 154
silence: Kierkegaard’s, 23, 71–72, 157
simplicity: goal of authorship, 7, 94, 259, 261–63
sin: doctrine of as decisive, 261
Kierkegaard’s consciousness of, 196
single individual, the, 18, 88, 97, 101–26, 154–56, 185, 210, 280
as aim of authorship, 9–11, 113–24, 263, 271
and Christendom, 155–56
and Christianity, 205
and congregation, 265–66
as the decisive category, 118, 155–56
as the decisive Christian category, 121, 264–66
dialectic of, 115
in different times, 279–80
and the ethical, 277
Kierkegaard’s distinctive category, 154
in pseudonymous and upbuilding works, 115, 118–19, 276
removal of misunderstanding about, 115–24
and the system, 154
and truth, 111
as two-edged sword, 279–80
universalizing of, 190
as universal singular, 117, 266, 271
situation: becoming a Christian in Christendom, 8
as vortex, 20
smoke-abatement. See analogy
socialism: and God, 179–80
Socrates, Socratic, 325
and being Christian, 54
on being human, 141
and crowd, 42
and deception, 53
dialectic, 53
and eccentricity, 68–69
and followers, 125–26
and illusion, 163
and indirect method, 249
as Kierkegaard’s teacher, 55
and knowing self, 321
as martyr of intellectuality, 191
method, 54
and the single individual, 123, 155
as teacher, 185
and truth, xi
indirection, x
and universalizing the particular, 190
Solche Werke sind Spiegel…, 92
sophist: and philosopher, 206, 245
Søren Kierkegaard International Bibliografi, xix
spider. See analogy
spirit: the single individual as category of, 121
spy: Kierkegaard as, 87, 89, 92, 174
state: Christian, 201
stepfather. See analogy
strategy: need for different in Christendom, 52–53
street: Kierkegaard on, 58–61, 157, 170
preaching on, 252
street inspector. See analogy
striving: and grace, 254
Stüverjängere, 270–71
subjectivity: and objectivity, 185
suffering: and religious life, 229
sword, two-edged. See analogy
sympathy: Kierkegaard’s with common people, 81
system, the: and pseudonymous writings, 118
and single individual, 154
tacking. See analogy
task: of Kierkegaard, x, 93–97, 124, 139–40, 173–74, 184, 260–61, 268, 285
and wrong propagation, 125
Kierkegaard’s in self-denial, 25
teacher: as learner, 46–47
method and reputation of, 49
Socrates as, 55, 185. See analogy
teleological suspension, 89
tentamen rigorosum, 69
Tersteegen, Gerhard: epigraph, 2, 275, 311
Erbauliches und Beschauliches von Gerhard Tersteegen, 311
Wer glaubet, der ist grosz und reich, 2
theater intermission: Kierkegaard’s presence in, 61
Thermopylae. See analogy
thinking: and walking, 170
thorn in flesh, 75, 83, 86, 229, 263
time, temporality: misfortune of the age, 104
Titans: See analogy, 122
to be/exist: and the scientific-scholarly, 130
traitors: need for, 220
travel: Kierkegaard and, 171–72, 177, 188, 190
triviality: and misunderstanding, 113–14
trousers: criticism of Kierkegaard, 96, 204, 215, 318, 326
truth: and communication, 7
and the press, 110
serving the, 211
and the single individual, 111
and subjectivity, xi
and teleological suspension, 89
truth-witness: and crowd, 109
Kierkegaard not called, 119, 277–78
Tryde, Eggert C., 330
and Practice, 251–52
typesetter: instructions to, 273, 274, 290
Typhon, 321
tyrants: and power, 281
ubi P. L. Møller, ibi Corsaren, 323
unclaimed property. See analogy
unconditional, the: Christianity as, 287
need for, 19–20
universally human, the: possibility of inwardness, 25–26
universal, the: and the particular, 189–90
and the single individual, 266, 271, 276
uno tenore, 6
unrecognizability and recognizability, 289
untruth: the crowd as, 126, 153, 275
upbuilding, the: category of, 199, 326
villain: Kierkegaard as, 183
voice: Kierkegaard as, 230–31
vortex: situation as, 20
vox dei, 123
vox populi, 123
walking: and thinking, 170
Wandering Jew, 221
without authority, 78
Kierkegaard as, 6, 12, 87, 118, 180–81, 235, 256, 261, 266
witnessing, xi–xii
as communication, 187
wordliness: and equality, 104
working against oneself: in authorship, 9–10, 59, 263
wound. See analogy
writer, writing: for authors, 153–54
and crowd, 59
Kierkegaard and, 57–70
and personality, 161
situation in small country, 5. See also authors; authorship
Xenophon: Memorabilia, 315
yellow bunting. See analogy
youth: and (old) age, 218–19
and ideality, 206