Kierkegaard's concluding unscientific postscript
By: translated from the Danish by David F. Swenson, completed after his death and provided with introduction and notes by Walter Lowrie
Contributors: Swenson, David F. 1876-1940; Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959; American-Scandinavian Foundation
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 577
Subjects: Christianity -- Philosophy; Apologetics -- History -- 19th century
Other titles: Concluding unscientific postscript
Description: Besides a sense of personal loss at the death of David F. Swenson on February 11, 1940, I felt dismay that he had left unfinished his translation of the Unscientific Postscript. I had longed to see it published among the first of Kierkegaard's works in English. In the spring of 1935 it did not seem exorbitant to hope that it might be ready for the printer by the end of that year. For in March I learned from Professor Swenson that he had years before "done about two thirds of a rough translation." In 1937/38 he took a sabbatical leave from his university for the sake of finishing this work. Yet after all it was not finished- partly because Professor Swenson was already incapacitated by the illness which eventually resulted in his death; but also because he aimed at a degree of perfection which hardly can be reached by a translator. At one time he expressed to me his suspicion that perhaps, as in the translation of Kant's philosophy, it might require the cooperation of many scholars during several generations before the translation of Kierkegaard's terminology could be definitely settled. I hailed with joy this new apprehension, which promised a speedy conclusion of the work, and in the words of Luther I urged him to "sin boldly."--Editor's pref., p. [ix].
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