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Book SynopsisOffers a discussion of double-mindedness and ethical integrity. This work shows an inverted qualitative difference between the learner and the teacher. It explores how joy can come out of suffering.
Trade Review"These new translations are excellent."--Choice "The decision by Princeton University Press to publish a first paperback edition of the previously difficult to obtain 1993 hardback, Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, provides a timely and especially welcome opportunity to review one of Soren Kierkegaard's (1813-55) most pastorally sensitive and lyrically evocative works."--Simon D. Podmore, European Legacy "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
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Historical Introduction, pg. ix*Preface, pg. 3*On The Occasion Of A Confession, pg. 7*Preface, pg. 157*I. [To Be Contented with Being a Human Being], pg. 159*II. [How Glorious It Is to Be a Human Being], pg. 183*III. [What Blessed Happiness Is Promised in Being a Human Being], pg. 201*Preface, pg. 215*I. [What Meaning and What Joy There Are in the Thought of Following Christ], pg. 217*II. [But How Can the Burden Be Light If the Suffering Is Heavy?], pg. 230*III. [The Joy of It That the School of Sufferings Educates for Eternity], pg. 248*IV. [The Joy of It That in Relation to God a Person Always Suffers as Guilty], pg. 264*V. [The Joy of It That It Is Not the Road That Is Hard but That Hardship Is the Road], pg. 289*VI. [The Joy of It That the Happiness of Eternity Still Outweighs Even the Heaviest Temporal Suffering], pg. 306*VII. [The Joy of It That Bold Confidence Is Able in Suffering to Take Power from the World and Has the Power to Change Scorn into Honor, Downfall into Victory], pg. 321*Key to References, pg. 343*Original Common Title Page and Part Title Pages, pg. 346*Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, pg. 354*Acknowledgments, pg. 397*Collation of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works, pg. 401*Notes, pg. 405*Bibliographical Note, pg. 423*Index, pg. 425*Advisory Board, pg. 443
