Title: Concluding unscientific postscript to "Philosophical fragments" /
Authors: Perkins, Robert L., 1930-
Publisher: Mercer University Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Kierkegaard, Søren,; Christianity Philosophy; Apologetics
Abstract: "Concluding Unscientific Postscript was published 28 February 1846, and this collection of essays, all written for the sesquicentennial, is offered in celebration of that singular event in the history of philosophy. Not since Hume's Treatise has a philosophic work of such singular merit fallen so near stillborn from the press. Hume attempted to be his own publicist and recast his revolutionary new arguments in his Inquiries and the Abstract. Kierkegaard, by contrast, made the best of the silence, doggedly pursuing his philosophic task, at least as he Socratically understood it: "once again to read through solo, if possible in a more inward way, the original text handed down from the fathers" (CUP 1:629-30). Philosophical Fragments and Concluding Unscientific Postscript are the two works Kierkegaard published under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus.^