For Self-Examination

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For Self-Examination (subtitle: Recommended to the Present Age) is a work by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. It was published on September 20, 1851 as part of Kierkegaard's second authorship. The work has been called one of Kierkegaard's most accessible works, where he writes with "the metaphorical imagination of a poet, the thoughtfulness of a philosopher and theologian, the whimsy of the humourist, and the ardour of the lover and believer." [1]

Preface - My dear reader, read aloud, if possible! If you do so, allow me to thank you for it; if you not only do it yourself, if you also influence others to do it, allow me to thank each one of them, and you again and again! By reading aloud you will gain the strongest impression that you have only yourself to consider, not me, who, after all, am "without authority"[2], nor others, which would be a distraction.

– Søren Kierkegaard, For Self-Examination in Essential Kierkegaard, p.393

  1. ^ Essential Kierkegaard, p.393
  2. ^ Refer to On the Differences between a Genius and an Apostle: Genius, unlike apostles, are not endowed with "authority from God".

  • Hong, Howard V. & Edna H. The Essential Kierkegaard. Princeton University Press, 2000.
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Søren Kierkegaard
Major Works On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates · Either/Or · Repetition · The Concept of Dread · Fear and Trembling · Philosophical Fragments · Stages on Life's Way · Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments · Works of Love · The Sickness Unto Death · Practice in Christianity · The Book on Adler · For Self-Examination · The Point of View of my Work as an Author · The Journals Kierkegaard
Ideas Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard · Theology of Søren Kierkegaard · Leap of faith · Knight of faith · Indirect communication
Related List of works · Regine Olsen · Peter Kierkegaard · Danish Golden Age · Comparison with Nietzsche
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