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CONCLUDING UNSCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPT TO PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENTS VOLUME II

KIERKEGAARD'S WRITINGS, XII.2

CONCLUDING UNSCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPT TO PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGlWENTS

by S0ren Kierkegaard VOLUME II: HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION, SUPPLEMENT, NOTES, AND INDEX Edited and Translated with Introduction and Notes by

Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

Copyright © 1992 by Howard V. Hong

Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Su.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS, TITLE PAGE, AND EPIGRAPH

See Supplement, pp. 2.7-14 (Pap. VI B 13; VI A 146; VI B 14, 20, 25. 27:1, 15, 16. 17,40:1,19:1,95,96).

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

See Supplement, pp. 2.8-9 (Pap. VI B 89,90,98:1,2). Concluding Unscientific Postscript was intended as the final work of Kicrkegaard as an author. See Historical Introduction, pp. 2.xi-xiii. Mimicai. Mime is the dramatic art of expressively imitating emotions and thoughts by actions and gestures, usually without words. Here "mimical" presumably can be interpreted as "poetically artistically elucidated" in such a way that the tone and form are appropriate to the content. It may also refer to a gathering of all the earlier "mimed" (pseudonymous) works as background material for this "concluding" work. Pathetical. Because the English "pathetic" is usually taken to mean "pitiful," the Danish pathetisk is translated in Postscript as "pathos-filled" (and det Pathetiske as "pathos"). Here, because of the trio of adjectives in like form, "pathetical" is used. Pathos marks the poet and his work, and in Postscript Kierkegaard is the poet's (Climacus's) poet. Dialectical. The dialectical marks the thinker. Climacus is a poetic philosopher. TITLE PAGE.

Plato (?), Platonis quae exstant opera, I-XI, ed. Friedrich Ast (Leipzig: 1819-32; ASKB 1144-54), IX, p. 64; The Collected Dialogues o{Plato, ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963). p. 1558. See Supplement, p. 2.9 (Pap. VI B 91). EPIGRAPH.

PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION

1. See Fragments, pp. 5-7,109, KWVII (SVIV 175-77, 270-71). 2. Shakespeare, Twelfih Night, I, 5, 20-21; Heilig Tre Kongers Aften, eller: Hvad man vii, tr. Adolphe Engelbert Boye, Det Kongelige Theaters Repertoire, 22 (1829), p. 5: "At blive godt ha?tlgt, er mangen Gang bedre end at blive slet givt [To be well hanged is many times better than to be ill wed]"; Was ihr wollt, I, 5, Shakspeare's dramatische Werke, I-XII, tr. August Wilhelm v. Schlegel and Ludwig Tieck (Berlin: 1839-41; ASKB 1883-88), V, p. 116: "Gutgehiingt ist besser, als schlecht verheirathet [Well hanged is better than ill wed J"; The Complete Works o{Shakespeare, ed. George Lyman Kittredge (Boston: Ginn, 1936), p. 404 (Clown to Maria): "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage." See Fragments, p. 3, KWVII (SVIV 174). 3. See Fragments. p. 5, KWVII (SVIV 175-76).

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4. See Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Kong Salomon og Jorgen Hattemager (Copenhagen: 1825), 14-26, pp. 47-79; Samlede Shifter. Skuespil, I-VII (Copenhagen: 1833-41; ASKB 1553-59), II, pp. 352-87. See also Fragments, p. 6, KW VII (SVIV 176). 5. See Fragments, Historical Introduction, pp. xix-xxii, KW VII. 6. See Ludvig Holberg, Hexerie Eller Blind Allarm, Den Danske Skue-Plads, I-VII (Copenhagen: 1788; ASKB 1566-67), IV, no pagination; Fragments, p. 7, KWVII (SVIV 177). 7. Jens Immanuel Baggesen, "Thomas Moore, eller Venskabs Seier over Ki