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Bezig met laden... Een literaire recensie (1846)door Søren Kierkegaard
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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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I thought, for the first half, that Kierkegaard was doing his usual irony, and actually mocking the novel under discussion. It appears not. I thought he was mocking the 'passion' of the romantic era; not so.
All that said, it's Kierkegaard, so there's great sentences and even paragraphs and some pretty good ideas, too (his discussion of reflection vs action turns out to be much more nuanced than it initially seems). And you can't help but think whether our own age is more like the revolutionary/ passionate, or the reflecting/prudent age. Neither, really. But it's worth thinking about, at least. ( )