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Kierkegaard: Works of Love, Part II (Live Reading)

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Kierkegaard: Works of Love, Part II (Live Reading)

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Online meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/Kierkegaard-Friday-CPM

We'll start reading from page 297 (Danish IX 283).

Works of Love; Some Christian Deliberations in the Form of Discourses is a collection of reflections and discourses that reflect on love from various perspectives and with respect to various occasions. The theme of love is a frequent topic in Kierkegaard's work, so this should provide us an occasion to reflect on much of Kierkegaard's earlier works.
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/Works-Love-Kierkegaards-Writings-Vol/dp/0691059160/
PDF: https://annas-archive.org/md5/93afa222d5c3cd524e68739aef47d444

On the Friday Meetings:
The Friday meetings started on January 1st, 2016 with an initial goal of reading through the first half of Kierkegaard's works. Due to continued interest, we have decided to return to previous works for review, study more background texts, and continue beyond the first half of Kierkegaard's writing.
Works read so far in the series:

  • The Concept of Irony, With Continual Reference to Socrates (Kierkegaard)
  • Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures (Kierkegaard)
  • Either/Or (Victor Eremita, et al.)
  • Two Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
  • Fear and Trembling (Johannes de Silentio)
  • Repetition (Constantin Constantius)
  • Three Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
  • Four Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
  • Two Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
  • Three Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
  • Philosophical Fragments (Johannes Climacus)
  • Johannes Climacus or De Omnibus Dubitandum Est (Johannes Climacus)
  • Concept of Anxiety (Vigilius Haufniensis)
  • Prefaces (Nicolaus Notabene)
  • Writing Sampler (A.B.C.D.E.F. Godthaab)
  • Four Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
  • Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions (Kierkegaard)
  • Stages on Life's Way (Hilarious Bookbinder)
  • Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments (Johannes Climacus)
  • The Sickness Unto Death (Anti-Climacus)

Works read for background:

  • The First Love (Scribe)
  • The Berlin Lectures (Schelling)
  • Clavigo (Goethe)
  • Faust Part I (Goethe)
  • Antigone (Sophocles)
  • Axioms (Lessing)
  • The Little Mermaid (Anderson)

Works read inspired (at least in part) by Kierkegaard

  • The Escape from God (Tillich)
  • You Are Accepted (Tillich)
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