(Set of 3 Gorey/Kierkegaard Covers) Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death; Either/Or Volume II; Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard [Edward Gorey Covers]

Kierkegaard, Soren; Lowry, Walter (Intro./Trans.); Gorey, Edward (Typography); Johnson, Howard A. (Foreword); Hollander, Lee M. (Trans.)

Published by Doubleday Anchor, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1960

Mass market paperback. 7 1/4" X 4 1/4". 278pp. Doubleday Anchor Edward Gorey cover, uncredited. Wear to paper wraps, with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Creasing to spines. Toning to edges of text blocks. Previous owner's names in ink to front free endpaper of Selections and to inside of front cover of Fear and Trembling/The Sickness Unto Death. Occasional inked underlining and notation to pages of Selections. Underlining does not obscure text. Bindings are sound. A very nice set of these mid-century pocket paperback copies of the work of Soren Kierkegaard, with cover designs by Edward Gorey. ABOUT THIS SET: Fear and Trembling [and] The Sickness Unto Death: -Walter Lowrie's classic, bestselling translation of Søren Kierkegaard's most important and popular books remains unmatched for its readability and literary quality. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death established Kierkegaard as the father of existentialism and have come to define his contribution to philosophy. Lowrie's translation, first published in 1941 and later revised, was the first in English, and it has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to Kierkegaard's thought. Kierkegaard counted Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death among "the most perfect books I have written," and in them he introduces two terms--"the absurd" and "despair"--that have become key terms in modern thought. Fear and Trembling takes up the story of Abraham and Isaac to explore a faith that transcends the ethical, persists in the face of the absurd, and meets its reward in the return of all that the faithful one is willing to sacrifice, while The Sickness Unto Death examines the spiritual anxiety of despair. Either/Or Volume II: -Søren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had published two earlier works on Hans Christian Andersen and irony. The pseudonymous volumes of Either/Or are the writings of a young man (I) and of Judge William (II). The ironical young man's papers include a collection of sardonic aphorisms; essays on Mozart, modern drama, and boredom; and "The Seducer's Diary." The seeming miscellany is a reflective presentation of aspects of the "either," the esthetic view of life. Part II is an older friend's "or," the ethical life of integrated, authentic personhood, elaborated in discussions of personal becoming and of marriage. The resolution of the "either/or" is left to the reader, for there is no Part III until the appearance of Stages on Life's Way. The poetic-reflective creations of a master stylist and imaginative impersonator, the two men write in distinctive ways appropriate to their respective positions. Selections fromt he Writings of Kierkegaard: -Originally published in 1923, this collection was one of the first appearances of Kierkegaard in translation in this country. It remains the finest one-volume selection from the work of the great Danish philosopher, and the editor's introduction is still the best brief analysis of Kierkegaard's work.(Publisher). Seller Inventory # 15859

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Title: (Set of 3 Gorey/Kierkegaard Covers) Fear and...
Publisher: Doubleday Anchor, Doubleday & Company, Garden City
Publication Date: 1960
Binding: Mass market paperback
Condition: Good