Seeing some prospective plans for 2011 and more impressively seeing some accomplished plans from 2010 (I’ll let you identify the theme) I thought I would set out my own grand vision for 2011 . . . a year of living existentially. Kierkegaard in a year. I will be following the trajectory of Princeton’s edition of Kierkegaard’s Writings. I do not have all volumes on hand so it is difficult to set a ‘pace’ but hell I thought I would throw this up in a fit of passion and triumph victorious by 2012 or let me good blogging name be sullied in the process. Here is the list;
- I. Early Polemical Writings. S. Kierkegaard; J. Watkin, ed. and trans.
- II. The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates/Notes of Schelling’s Berlin Lectures. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- III. Either/Or. Part I. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- IV. Either/Or: Part II. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- V. Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- VI. Fear and Trembling/Repetition. S. Kierkegaard; E.H. Hong and H.V. Hong, eds. and trans.
- VII. Philosophical Fragments, or a Fragment of Philosophy/Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est. (Two books in one volume). S. Kierkegaard; E.H. Hong and H.V. Hong, eds. and trans.
- VIII. Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin. S. Kierkegaard; R. Thomte, ed. and trans.
- IX. Prefaces: Writing Sampler. S. Kierkegaard; T.W. Nichol, ed. and trans.
- X. Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions. S. Kierkegaard;
- XI. Stages on Life’s Way. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XII. Volume I. Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume I. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XII. Volume II. Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume II. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XIII. The Corsair Affair and Articles Related to the Writings. S. Kierkegaard; E.H. Hong and H.V. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XIV. Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age A Literary Review. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XV. Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XVI. Works of Love. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XVII. Christian Discourses: The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XVIII. Without Authority. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XIX. Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening. S. Kierkegaard; E.H. Hong and H.V. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XX. Practice in Christianity. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XXI. For Self-Examination / Judge For Yourself!. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XXII. The Point of View. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XXIII. The Moment and Late Writings. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XXIV. The Book on Adler. S. Kierkegaard; H.V. Hong and E.H. Hong, eds. and trans.
- XXV. Letters and Documents. S. Kierkegaard; H. Rosenmeier, ed. and trans.
May God have mercy on my soul.
David CL Driedger 
Well this is an ambitious project. I have read almost half this corpus (but over so many years that recall is weak) so I’ll be watching for your inspirational questions and insights here.
You might time your reading of Philosophical Fragments so that you can join JRidenour and others (including me if I can keep up) when the group reads it I think sometime in March – Jeremy’s got a long list with that one thing of SK’s in it.
Courage!
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Thanks. I have read most of the major works once already so that should be helpful. Plus many of these are after all ‘upbuilding’ (remind me of that when I wade into The Concept of Anxiety. Plus the initiative should also come from a thesis project that is the works. So I am trying to stack a few things in my favour here . . .
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Do you have a schedule?
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Unfortunately not. I do not have all the volumes in my possession and the Princeton editions are difficult to gauge as almost half the volume is usually made up of supplemental material. The list, as it stands, is generally chronological and that is how I will be following it . . . with a few exceptions.
I am not nearly so organized as some of the other reading groups out there!
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