Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age a Literary Review - Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age a Literary Review

About the author

Howard V. Hong, the former Director of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, is the General Editor of Kierkegaard's Writings. Edna H. Hong (1913-2007) was a poet, writer, and translator who has collaborated with Professor Hong on other English translations of Kierkegaard's work.

Summary

After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard composed reviews as a means of writing without being an author. Two Ages, here presented in a definitive English text, is simultaneously a review and a book in its own right. In it, Kierkegaard comments on the anonymously published Danish novel Two Ages, which contrasts the mentality of the age of the French Revolution with that of the subsequent epoch of rationalism.

Kierkegaard commends the author's shrewdness, and his critique builds on the novel's view of the two generations. With keen prophetic insight, Kierkegaard foresees the birth of an impersonal cultural wasteland, in which the individual will either be depersonalized or obliged to find an existence rooted in "equality before God and equality with all men."

This edition, like all in the series, contains substantial supplementary material, including a historical introduction, entries from Kierkegaard's journals and papers, and the preface and conclusion of the original novel.

Additional text

"The definitive edition of the Writings. The first volume . . . indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent notes."

Product details

• Authors: Soren Kierkegaard, Søren Kierkegaard, Sren Kierkegaard
• Assisted by: Edna H. Hong (Editor), Howard V. Hong (Editor), Howard Vincent Hong (Editor), Sren Hong (Editor), Edna H. Hong (Translation), Howard V. Hong (Translation), Sren Kierkegaard (Translation), Edna H. Hong (Editor and translation), Howard V. Hong (Editor and translation), Hong Edna H. (Editor and translation), Hong Howard V. (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.1978
• EAN: 9780691072265
• ISBN: 978-0-691-07226-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Kierkegaard's Writings; Kierkegaard's Writings (Hardco; Kierkegaard's Writings; Kierkegaard's Writings (Hardco
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought