Kierkegaard was born and died in the XNUMXth century, but the next century, like the present, is simply unimaginable without him. The concepts of freedom, choice and responsibility, which are key to our time, would have a completely different meaning and significance without it. He turned out to be a forerunner of modern times and stylistically: his literary game, the countless masks behind which he was hiding, irritated many aesthetes and thinkers, but inspired many.
Kierkegaard was born and died in the XNUMXth century, but the next century, like the present, is simply unimaginable without him. The concepts of freedom, choice and responsibility, which are key to our time, would have a completely different meaning and significance without it. He turned out to be a forerunner of modern times and stylistically: his literary game, the countless masks behind which he was hiding, irritated many aesthetes and thinkers, but inspired many. One of the masks is the editor Victor Eremita (translated as “The Victorious Hermit”), who publishes accidentally found letters, lectures and other works of two friends … needless to say, these two are also Kierkegaard masks. The book turned out to be the only one that was published twice during the author’s lifetime and brought him some kind of literary income. M. Bakhtin, in order to read Kierkegaard in full, had to learn Danish! We turned out to be more fortunate than him and today we have the opportunity to read the entire work without exceptions and abbreviations: for the first time its full Russian translation has been made.
PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE RUSSIAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY FOR THE HUMANITIES, AMPHORA, 823 p.