The Essential Kierkegaard

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ix Early Journal Entries 3 From the Papers of One Still Living 13 The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates 20 Either/Or, A Fragment of Life, I 37 Either/Or, A Fragment of Life, II 66 Four Upbuilding Discourses 84 Fear and Trembling 93 Repetition 102 Philosophical Fragments, or a Fragment of Philosophy 116 Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est 126 The Concept of Anxiety 138 Prefaces 156 Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions 164 Stages on Life's Way 170 Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments 187 "The Activity of a Traveling Esthetician and How He Still Happened to Pay for the Dinner" 247 Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and The Present Age. A Literary Review 252 Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits 269 Works of Love 277 Christian Discourses 312 The Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air 333 Two Ethical-Religious Essays 339 The Sickness unto Death 350 Practice in Christianity 373 Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays 385 For Self-Examination [First series] 393 Judge for Yourself! For Self-Examination, Second series 404 The Book on Adler 411 Fædrelandet Articles and The Moment 424 On My Work as an Author and The Point of View for My Work as an Author 449 The Changelessness of God 482 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 493 NOTES 495 BIBLIOGRAPHY 505 INDEX 507