Cambridge Texts in the History of Philos Kierkegaard: Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Paperback)

Kierkegaard s Concluding Unscientific Postscript is a classic of existential literature. It concludes the first and richest phase of Kierkegaard s pseudonymous authorship and is the text that philosophers look to first when attempting to define Kierkegaard s own philosophy. Familiar Kierkegaardian themes are introduced in the work including truth as subjectivity indirect communication the leap and the impossibility of forming a philosophical system for human existence. The Postscript sums up the aims of the preceding pseudonymous works and opens the way to the next part of Kierkegaard s increasingly tempestuous life: it can thus be seen as a cornerstone of his philosophical thought. This volume offers the work in a new and accessible translation by Alastair Hannay together with an introduction that sets the work in its philosophical and historical contexts.