For over a century, the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been on the middle of a couple of very important discussions, referring to not just philosophy and theology, but additionally, extra lately, fields equivalent to social inspiration, psychology, and modern aesthetics, in particular literary theory.

regardless of his rather brief lifestyles, Kierkegaard used to be an awfully prolific author, as attested to by way of the 26-volume Princeton collage Press variation of all of his released writings. yet Kierkegaard left at the back of approximately as a lot unpublished writing, such a lot of which is composed of what are referred to as his "journals and notebooks." Kierkegaard has lengthy been well-known as one in all history's nice magazine keepers, yet in basic terms particularly small parts of his journals and notebooks are what we often comprehend by way of the time period "diaries." via some distance the larger a part of Kierkegaard's journals and notebooks comprises reflections on a myriad of subjects--philosophical, non secular, political, own. learning his journals and notebooks takes us into his workshop, the place we will see his whole universe of suggestion. we will witness the genesis of his released works, to be sure--but we will be able to additionally see complete galaxies of strategies, new insights, and fragments, huge and small, of partly (or virtually solely) accomplished yet unpublished works. Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks allows us to determine the philosopher in discussion together with his occasions and with himself.

quantity four of this 11-volume sequence comprises the 1st 5 of Kierkegaard's famous "NB" journals, which comprise, as well as a very good many reflections on his personal lifestyles, a wealth of strategies on theological concerns, in addition to on Kierkegaard's instances, together with political advancements and the day-by-day press.

Kierkegaard wrote his journals in a two-column layout, one for his preliminary entries and the second one for the vast marginal reviews that he additional later. This version of the journals reproduces this structure, comprises a number of pictures of unique manuscript pages, and includes huge scholarly remark at the numerous entries and at the heritage of the manuscripts being reproduced.