Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments (Danish: Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift til de philosophiske Smuler) is one of the greatest works by Søren Kierkegaard. The work is poignant attack against Hegelianism, the philosophy of Georg Hegel. The work is also famous for its dictum, Subjectivity is Truth. Søren Kierkegaard was born to an affluent family in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. ... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, in present-day southwest Germany. ... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, in present-day southwest Germany. ...
The whole pseudonymous authorship, from Either/Or to ConcludingUnscientific Postscriptcan be read as a parody of the notion of a scala paradisi by means of which humans can ascend to the divine.
He seems to conclude that since it is impossible to demonstrate the objective truth of Christianity's claims, the most the individual can do is to concentrate on the how of appropriation of those claims.
At the end of ConcludingUnscientificPostscript, Climacus explicitly revokes everything he has said - though he is careful to add that to say something and revoke it is not the same as never having said it at all.
Keep in mind that _Concluding UnscientificPostscript_ was originally written under the pseudonym of Johannes Climacus, the sceptical and pessimistic alter ego of the real Kierkegaard.
Taken together, the _Johannes Climacus/Philosophical Fragments/ Conlcuding UnscientificPostscript_ series is the be-all end-all philosophical work of the 19th century.
This book is a "Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments." The "Philosophical Fragments" is, therefore, a 100 page book with a 600 page postscript attached (that's the joke ha ha) Of all of SK's books this is my favorite.
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