Kierkegaard, to write or to die
Kierkegaard, to write or to die is my first book. Released in 2007 at the Presses Universitaires de France, in the famous « Perspectives critiques » series directed by Roland Jaccard, it attempts to understand, thanks to the light of psychoanalysis, why Søren Kierkegaard chose a lonely life only dedicated to the task of writing (only in french at this moment).
From 1838, the year when he published his first book, to 1855, the year when he died, Kierkegaard wrote and published not less than 34 books, whose 17 of them in only 3 years !
And you must add the huge collection of private papers and personal notes he started to write since 1834, which fill the 13 volumes of his Papers, where comes from his Diary.
Why did Kierkegaard wrote so much ? Why the writing activity was so important in his life, to the detriment of his lovelife which was so sweet with Regina or to his priest life to which he was destined ? What is the sense of what I called the kierkegaardian « hyper-writing » ?
These are the questions I try to answer in this book, Kierkegard, to write or to die (« Kierkegaard, écrire ou mourir »), thanks to the light of psychoanalysis, by a very attentive reading of his private Diary.
Nota
I'm sorry but, at the moment, this book is only published in French. If you have a translation project, please feel free to contact me.
They are talking about it
- Radio : Alain Veinstein, France Culture, 20 March 2008
- Press : Anne Mounic, Temporel, n° 5, May 2008
- Press : La Quinzaine littéraire, n° 956, novembre 2007, p. 29
- Internet : Le choix des libraires
- Internet : Accordphilo
Table of contents
Prologue - Le « Rosebud » kierkegaardien
Chapitre 1 - De la mélancolie à l’hypergraphie
Chapitre 2 - La lande du père
Chapitre 3 - « J’ai eu en don une intellectualité éminente »
Chapitre 4 - « À toi pour l’éternité »
Chapitre 5 - « Opérer purement en esprit »
Chapitre 6 - Auteur ou bien pasteur ?
Chapitre 7 - « Pas un jour sans une ligne »
Chapitre 8 - Quand écrire, c’est faire
Épilogue - Terres Froides
References
VIAL Stéphane (2007), Kierkegaard, écrire ou mourir, Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, « Perspectives critiques », 154 p.
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