Without authority: the lily in the field and the bird of the air: two ethical-religious essays: three discourses at the communion on fridays: an upbuilding discourse: two discourses at the communion on fridays PDF
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WITHOUT AUTHORITY KIERKEGAARD'S WRITINGS, XVIII WITHOUT AUTHORITY THE LILY IN THE FIELD AND THE BIRD OF THE AIR TWO ETHICAL-RELIGIOUS ESSAYS THREE DISCOURSES AT THE COMMUNION ON FRIDAYS AN UPBUILDING DISCOURSE TWO DISCOURSES AT THE COMMUNION ON FRIDAYS by S0ren Kierkegaard Edited and Translated with Introduction and Notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY Copyright © 1997 by Postscript, Inc. Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW All Rights Reserved Third printing, and first paperback printing, 2009 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-691-14079-7 The Library of Congress has cataloged the cloth edition of this book as follows Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813–1855. [Uden Myndighed. English.] Without Authority / by Søren Kierkegaard ; edited and translated with introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. p. cm. — (Kierkegaard’s writings ; 18) Translation of: Uden Myndighed. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-691-01239-3 (cloth) 1. Devotional literature. 2. Christian ethics. 3. Authority—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Hong, Howard Vincent, 1912– . II. Hong, Edna Hatlestad, 1913– . III. Title. IV. Series: Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813–1855. Works. English. 1978 ; 18. BV4836.K53 1997 242—dc20 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available Preparation of this volume has been made possible in part by a grant from the Division of Research Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency Printed on acid-free paper. ∞ Designed by Frank Mahood press.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 CONTENTS HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION IX The Lily in the Field and the Bird if the Air: Three Devotional Discourses 1 PREFACE 3 I. "Look at the Birds of the Air; Look at the Lily in the Field." 7 II. "No One Can Serve Two Masters, for He Must Either Hate the One and Love the Other or Be Devoted to the One and Despise the Other." 21 III. "Look at the Birds of the Air; They Sow Not and Reap Not and Gather Not into Barns"-without Worries about Tomorrow. "Look at the Grass in the Field, Which Today Is." 36 Two Ethical-Religious Essays By H. H. 47 PREFACE 49 Does a Human Being Have the Right to Let Himself Be Put to Death for the Truth? 51 Contents Vl The Difference between a Genius and an Apostle 91 Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays 109 PREFACE 111 [The High Priest] 113 [The Tax Collector] 125 [The Woman Who Was a Sinner] 135 An Upbuilding Discourse 145 PREFACE 147 The Woman Who Was a Sinner 149 Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays 161 PREFACE 165 [But One Who Is Forgiven Little Loves Little] 167 [Love Will Hide a Multitude of Sins] 179 Contents vn SUPPLEMENT 189 Key to References 191 Original Title Page of The Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air 194 Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to The Lily in the Field and the Bird if the Air 197 Original Title Page of Two Ethical-Religious Essays 204 Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Two Ethical-Religious Essays 207 Original Title Page of Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays 248 Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays 251 Original Title Page of An Upbuilding Discourse 258 Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to An Upbuilding Discourse 261 Original Title Page of Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays 266 Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays 269 EDITORIAL APPENDIX 279 Acknowledgments 281 Collation of the Five Publications in the Danish Editions ofKierkegaard's Collected Works 283 Notes 289 Bibliographical Note 301 Index 303 HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION The common title of the present volume of five short works is Kierkegaard's own disclaimer for himself and his writings: "with out authority." He saw himself as one who "has something of a poet in his nature, in other respects is a thinker, but-yes, how often I have repeated this, to me so important and crucial, my first statement about myself-withollt authority."1 The disavowal of authority first appeared in the preface to Two Upbuilding Dis courses (1843), the initial volume in the signed series offered with his right hand and the companion volume to Either/Or, the initial volume in the pseudonymous series offered with his left hand.2 In the preface he states that the book "is called 'dis courses,' not 'sermons,' because its author does not have author ity to preach; 'upbuilding discourses,' not 'discourses for upbuild ing,' because the speaker by no means claims to be a teacher. "3 Kierkegaard had intended to cease being an author (except for perhaps some reviews of the writing of others, such as Thomas ine Gyllembourg's Two Ages) with Concluding Unscientific Post script to Philosophical Fragments (February 27, 1846) and to seek 1 Pap. IX B 10, p. 311. See pp. 99, 165; Supplement, pp. 216, 226-27, 235 (Pap. IX B 22, p. 321; VIII2 B 9:17; X1 A 328, p. 218). See also, for example, For Self-Examination, p. 3, KW XXI (SV XII 295); On My Work as an Author, in The Poit~t of View. KW XXII (SV XIII 494, 501, 505); The Poitlt of View for My Work as an Author, in The Point of View, KWXXll (SVXIII 494, 501, 505, 563, 571, 604);JP II 1258; VI 6220, 6577 (Pap. X2 A 159; IX A 189; X2 A 375). On the concept of authority in Kierkegaard's works, see The Book on Adler, Historical Introduction, KW XXIV. 2 See Supplement, pp. 237-38 (Pap. X1 A 351). See also Two Upbuildit1Ji Discourses (1844), in Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, p. 179, KW V (SV IV 73); Point of View, KWXXII (SVXI!I 527);JPV 5639, 5648 (Pap. IV A 75, 89). On the two parallel lines of publication, see Eighteen Discourses, Historical Introduc tion, pp. ix-xi. 3 Two Discourses (1843), in Eighteen Discourses, p. 5, KWV (SVIIl 11). The phrase "its author does not have authority" is repeated in the prefaces to the other ftve volumes included in Eighteen Discourses, pp. 53, 107, 179, 231, 295, KWV (SVIII 271; IV 7, 73, 121; V 79).
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