The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early ""Either/Or"" throught to ""The Diary of the Seducer"" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, in the changelessness of God's love. ""Works of Love"", the midpoint in the series, is also a high point, because of its penetrating, illuminating analysis of the forms and sources of love. Love as a feeling and mood is distinguished from works of love, love of the lovable from love of the unlovely, preferential love from love as the royal law, love as mutual egotism from triangular love, and erotic love from self-giving love. This work is marked by Kierkegaard's Socratic awareness of the reader, both as the centre of awakened understanding and as the initiator of action.
By:
Søren Kierkegaard
Edited and translated by:
Howard V. Hong,
Edna H. Hong
Imprint: Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Volume: v. 16
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 37mm
Weight: 652g
ISBN: 9780691059167
ISBN 10: 0691059160
Series: Kierkegaard's Writings
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 23 June 1998
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
College/higher education
,
Undergraduate
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Historical IntroductionLove's Hidden Life and Its Recognition by Its Fruits5You Shall Love17You Shall Love the Neighbor44You Shall Love the Neighbor61Romans 13:10. Love Is the Fulfilling of the Law91Love Is a Matter of Conscience135Our Duty to Love the People We See154Our Duty to Remain in Love's Debt to One Another175Love Builds Up209Love Believes All Things - and Yet Is Never Deceived225Love Hopes All Things - and Yet Is Never Put to Shame246Love Does Not Seek Its Own264Love Hides a Multitude of Sins280Love Abides300Mercifulness, a Work of Love Even If It Can Give Nothing and Is Able to Do Nothing315The Victory of the Conciliatory Spirit in Love, Which Wins the One Overcome331The Work of Love in Recollecting One Who Is Dead345The Work of Love in Praising Love359Conclusion375Supplement387Key to References388Original Title Pages of Works of Love, First and Second Series390Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Works of Love395Editorial Appendix489Acknowledgments491Collation of Works of Love in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works493Notes499Bibliographical Note529Index531
Reviews for Works of Love
The definitive edition of the Writings. The first volume ... indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent notes. -- Library Journal
