Kierkegaard Studies. Yearbook: On Behalf of the Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre

by Niels Jørgen Cappelørn (Editor)

The Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2005 is devoted to Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript , which has recently appeared in the new Danish scholarly edition, Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter vol. 7 (2002). Kierkegaard considered this second book, under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus, as the major work of the early period of his authorship. The main section of the Yearbook features papers on this work from leading international Kierkegaard experts, dealing with its historical relations, poetic structures, and philosophical and religious contents respectively. Section 2 is dedicated to articles on the important and varied history of reception of the Postscript and its commentaries in the different languages of the research tradition. Lectures and papers that were given at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre during 2004 are published in the third section, this year focused on Kierkegaard's aesthetics and suggestions for a general understanding of his authorship.

Hardcover

First published July 1, 2005

About the author

Niels Jørgen Cappelørn (born 1945) is a Danish theologian, Søren Kierkegaard scholar and former director of Søren Kierkegaard Research Center at the University of Copenhagen. He has written and edited a number of books on Kierkegaard, and was editor of Index til Søren Kierkegaards Papirer, bind XIV-XVI (1975–78). He was Director of the Danish Bible Society from 1980 to 1993.

Professor Cappelørn is a member of the Danish Council of Ethics, a body which provides advice to the Danish Parliament and raises public debate about ethical problems in the field of biomedicine, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He was made a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1992. A festschrift in his honor, At Være Sig Selv Nærværende (To Be Present to Oneself) was published in 2010, on the occasion of Professor Cappelørn's 65th birthday.