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KIERKEGAARD’S JOURNALS AND NOTEBOOKS BRUCE H. KIRMMSE AND K. BRIAN SO¨DERQUIST GENERAL EDITORS KIERKEGAARD’S JOURNALS AND NOTEBOOKS VOLUME 4 Journals NB–NB5 Edited by Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, David Kangas, Bruce H. Kirmmse, George Pattison, Joel D. S. Rasmussen, Vanessa Rumble, and K. Brian So¨derquist Published in cooperation with the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre Copenhagen Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford KIERKEGAARD’S JOURNALS and NOTEBOOKS EditorialBoard NielsJørgenCappelørn,AlastairHannay,DavidKangas,BruceH.Kirmmse, GeorgePattison,JoelD.S.Rasmussen,VanessaRumble,andK.BrianSo¨derquist incooperationwiththeSørenKierkegaardResearchCentre,Copenhagen Volume4,JournalsNB–NB5 Originallypublishedunderthetitles SørenKierkegaardsSkrifter:20JournalerneNB–NB5and SørenKierkegaardsSkrifter:K20KommentarertilJournalerneNB–NB5 ©2003bytheSørenKierkegaardResearchCentreFoundation,Copenhagen TheSørenKierkegaardResearchCentreFoundationatCopenhagenUniversityhasbeen establishedwithsupportfromtheDanishNationalResearchFoundation. 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Kierkegaard’sJournalsandNotebooksisbasedonSørenKierkegaardsSkrifter,whichispublished withthesupportofgrantsfromtheDanishNationalResearchFoundationand theDanishMinistryofCulture. Exceptasotherwisenoted,allphotographshavebeenprovidedby thephotographicstudiooftheRoyalDanishLibrary. ThisbookhasbeencomposedinPalatinoandOptima byBookPartnerMedia,Copenhagen,Denmark TextdesignbyBentRohde Printedonacid-freepaper.∞ PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica CONTENTS Introduction IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII vii Journal NB IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 1 Journal NB2 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 129 Journal NB3 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 243 Journal NB4 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 283 Journal NB5 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 367 Notes for Journal NB IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 431 Notes for Journal NB2 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 493 Notes for Journal NB3 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 551 Notes for Journal NB4 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 575 Notes for Journal NB5 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 617 Maps IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 651 Calendar IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 659 Concordance IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 667 vii Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks Introduction to the English Language Edition Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks is based on Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter (hereafter, SKS) [Søren Kierkegaard’s Writings] (Copen- hagen:Gad,1997–),whichisaDanishscholarly,annotatededition of everything written by Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855). When completed SKS will comprise fifty-five volumes. SKS divides the entirety of Kierkegaard’s output into four categories: 1) works published by Kierkegaard during his lifetime (e.g., such well- knowntitlesasEither/Or,FearandTrembling,andTheSicknessunto Death);2)worksthatlayready—orsubstantiallyready—forpub- lication at the time of Kierkegaard’s death, but which he did not publish in his lifetime (e.g., titles such as The Book on Adler, The Point of View for My Work as an Author, and Judge for Yourself!); 3) journals,notebooks,excerpts,andloosepapers,collectivelytitled Kierkegaard’s ”journals and notebooks”; and 4) letters and bio- graphicaldocuments.Clearly,Kierkegaardwasnotonlyaprolific author,hewasalsoaprolificwriter,andhisliteraryactivityfound expressionnotonlyinhispublishedworksbutalsointhemassof writings that were not published in his lifetime. It is these writ- ings, the third category listed above, titled Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks (hereafter, KJN) that constitute the material of the present English language edition. For a detailed account of pre- viousDanishandEnglishlanguageeditionsofKierkegaard’sun- publishedwritings,seepp.vii–xiiofthe”IntroductiontotheEn- glishLanguageEdition”involume1ofKJN. I. Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks Based as it is on the new Danish edition of SKS, the present En- glish language edition of Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks em- ploystheSKSprincipleoforganizationbyarchivalunit:journals, notebooks,andloosepapers. ThematerialsconstitutingthepresenteditionofKJNconsistof thedocumentsmentionedaboveasthethirdcategoryofmaterials includedinSKSasvolumes17through27.Theelevenvolumesof viii Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks KJNcontainthetranslatedtextoftheseelevenSKSvolumes,plus most of the explanatory notes contained in the eleven SKS com- mentary volumes that accompany SKS 17–27. Specifically, the textual materials constituting KJN consist of the following documents: a)asetoftenjournalstowhichKierkegaardaffixedlabelsdes- ignatingthem”AA”through”KK”(as”I”and”J”areidentical intheclassicalRomanalphabet,thereisnojournaltitled”II”); b)fifteennotebooks,designated”1”through”15”bytheeditors ofSKS,sequencedaccordingtothedatesonwhichKierkegaard first made use of them; Kierkegaard himself assigned titles to four of these notebooks, and the editors retain these titles in parentheses; c) a series of thirty-six quarto-sized, bound journal volumes to which Kierkegaard affixed labels designating them journals ”NB,””NB2,””NB3,”through”NB36”;and d) a great variety of materials—a large number of individual foliosheets,pages,slips,andscrapsofpaper—whichtheeditors ofKJN,followingtheeditorsofSKS,title”loosepapers.” There is a good deal of chronological back-and-forth in Kierke- gaard’sposthumouspapers.Kierkegaardoftenmadeuseofseveral of the first twenty-four documents—the ten journals designated ”AA” through ”KK” and the notebooks ”1” through ”14”— simultaneously, and there is thus much temporal overlap among these journals and notebooks. (Indeed, it was only after they had beeninuseforsometime,probablyinmid-orlate1842,thatKierke- gaardassignedthedesignations”AA”through”KK”tothejournal volumes bearing those labels.) Nonetheless, the above-mentioned archival units do fall into several broad temporal categories, and these twenty-four journals and notebooks can be collectively as- signedtotheperiod1833–1846.Notebook15,however,whichisen- tirely devoted to Kierkegaard’s relationship to Regine Olsen, his onetimefiance´e,stemsfrom1849.Thejournalstitled”NB”through ”NB36” were assigned their numbered titles in chronological order byKierkegaardhimselfandstemfromtheperiod1846–1855,though here,too,thesejournalscontainadditionsandemendations,someof whichstemfromlaterperiods,disruptingthegeneralchronological Introduction to the English Language Edition ix sequence of the journals. The final group of materials, the ”loose papers,”spanstheentireperiod1833–1855. KJN follows the editors of SKS in the choice of a two-column format,whichbestreflectsKierkegaard’spracticewhenkeepinghis journals and notebooks. Like many of his contemporaries, Kierke- gaard’susualcustomwithhisjournalsandnotebookswastocrease the pages lengthwise (vertically) so that each page had an inner column for the main text and a somewhat narrower outer column forsubsequentreflectionsandadditions.Inthisway,furtherreflec- tionscouldbe—andveryoftenwere—addedlater,sometimesmuch later,oftenonseveralsubsequentoccasions,e.g.,whenKierkegaard read or thought of something that reminded him of something he hadwrittenearlier. Ashasbeennotedabove,acertaindegreeofchronologicalorga- nizationispresentinthedocumentsthemselves,butastrictlychro- nological presentation of all the material is neither possible nor, perhaps,desirable.Astrictandcomprehensivechronologicalorga- nizationofthematerialisimpossible,forwhilewecanoftendetect thesequenceinwhichKierkegaardalteredandemendedanoriginal passage in a notebook or journal, it is frequently not possible to ascertain when these alterations and emendations took place— though in his earlier entries Kierkegaard often dated his marginal additions. Furthermore, there are also cases in which the very se- quenceofsuchchangescannotbedeterminedwithcertainty.Finally, evenifitcouldbeestablished,arigorouslychronologicalsequenc- ing of all the material would not necessarily be desirable, because such a serial presentation would render it more difficult to see the mannerinwhichKierkegaardcouldreturntoapassageonmultiple subsequentoccasions,addingto,deleting,andalteringwhathehad originally written. (It is hoped that upon completion of all eleven volumesofKJNitwillbepossibletoproduceanelectroniceditionof theentireseries;thiswouldmakeitpossibleforreaderstoorganize andsearchthroughthematerialsinavarietyofways.) II. The Format and Organization of the Present Edition 1.Kierkegaard’sJournalsandNotebooks(KJN)andSørenKierke- gaardsSkrifter(SKS) As already noted, KJN is a translation of Kierkegaard’s journals, notebooks, and loose papers, using the text as established by the editorsofSKS.Thegreatmajorityofthematerialsincludedinthe
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