{"product_id":"9781400832378","title":"Prefaces: Writing Sampler","description":"\u003cp\u003e  \u003ci\u003ePrefaces\u003c\/i\u003e was the last of four books by Søren Kierkegaard to appear within two weeks in June 1844. \u003ci\u003eThree Upbuilding Discourses\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Fragments\u003c\/i\u003e were published first, followed by \u003ci\u003eThe Concept of Anxiety\u003c\/i\u003e and its companion--published on the same day--the comically ironic \u003ci\u003ePrefaces\u003c\/i\u003e. Presented as a set of prefaces without a book to follow, this work is a satire on literary life in nineteenth-century Copenhagen, a lampoon of Danish Hegelianism, and a prefiguring of Kierkegaard's final collision with Danish Christendom.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Shortly after publishing \u003ci\u003ePrefaces\u003c\/i\u003e, Kierkegaard began to prepare \u003ci\u003eWriting Sampler\u003c\/i\u003e as a sequel. \u003ci\u003eWriting Sampler\u003c\/i\u003e considers the same themes taken up in \u003ci\u003ePrefaces\u003c\/i\u003e but in yet a more ironical and satirical vein. Although \u003ci\u003eWriting Sampler\u003c\/i\u003e remained unpublished during his lifetime, it is presented here as Kierkegaard originally envisioned it, in the company of \u003ci\u003ePrefaces\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151730196720,"sku":"9781400832378","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400832378_p0.jpg?v=1763712271","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400832378","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}