Authorship and Authority in Kierkegaard's Writings by Joseph ... - 9781350163812

Authorship and Authority in Kierkegaard's WritingsAuthor(s): Joseph Westfall\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350163812, 978-1350163812\nSynopsis\nAuthorship is a complicated subject in Kierkegaard's work, which he surely recognized, given his late attempts to explain himself in On My Work as an Author. From the use of multiple pseudonyms and antonyms, to contributions across a spectrum of media and genres, issues of authorship abound.\n\nWhy did Kierkegaard write in the ways he did? Before we assess Kierkegaards famous thoughts on faith or love, or the relationship between 'the aesthetic,' 'the ethical,' and 'the religious,' we must approach how he expressed them. Given the multi-authored nature of his works, can we find a view or voice that is definitively Kierkegaards own? Can entries in his unpublished journals and notebooks tell us what Kierkegaard himself thought? How should contemporary readers.