Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1844

Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1844
The Søren Kierkegaard statue in the Royal Library Garden og Slotsholmen in Copenhagen, Denmark
AuthorSøren Kierkegaard
Original titleFire opbyggelige Taler
TranslatorDavid Swenson, Howard V Hong
LanguageDanish
SeriesFirst authorship (Discourses)
GenreChristianity, philosophy
Published1990 Princeton University Press
Publication date
August 31, 1844
Publication placeDenmark
Published in English
1946 – first translation
Media typeHardcover
Pages~110
ISBN0691020876
Preceded byThe Concept of Anxiety 
Followed byThree Discourses on Imagined Occasions 

Four Upbuilding Discourses (1844) is the last of the Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses published during the years 1843–1844 by Søren Kierkegaard. He published three more discourses on "crucial situations in life" (Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions) in 1845, the situations being confession, marriage, and death. These three areas of life require a "decision made in time".[1]

  1. ^ Fear and Trembling, Hong p. 15ff