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Kierkegaard's Attack Upon "Christendom" 1854-1855.

Translated, with an introduction, by Walter Lowrie.

Stock Code 113715

London, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1946

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Kierkegaard's last published work. The first edition in English of these twenty-one satirical articles by Kierkegaard attacking the established Church: collectively his last published work before his death in November 1855.

With the death of his father's friend Jacob Mynster, the Bishop of Zealand, earlier in the year, Kierkegaard finally felt able to 'speak willingly' against organised religion, which he considered to have a deleterious influence on the individual's relationship to God. These articles, self-styled sermons, originally published in the Danish weekly Faedrelandet, and as series of pamphlets titled Øjeblikket, mark his attempt to awaken his fellow believers to this eventuality: 'to bring Christianity, the thought of Christianity, into the midst of life's reality and into conflict with its various interests' (p.2).

First UK edition, first impression; 8vo (22 x 15 cm); ownership inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto; publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original brown typographic dust-jacket lettered in green, price-clipped, slight spotting to top-edge, spine a little darkened, very good; xviii, 303, [1]pp.

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Provenance: John Brown (presentation inscription).

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Kierkegaard's Attack Upon "Christendom" 1854-1855.

KIERKEGAARD, Søren.

Stock code: 113715

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