Kierkegaard's Writings, XVI
The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early Either/Or, through ""The Diary of the Seducer"" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, on the changelessness of God's love. Works of Love, the midpoint in the series, is also the monumental high point, because of its penetrating, illuminating analysis of the forms and sources of love. Love as feeling and mood is distinguished from works of love, love of the lovable from love of the unlovely, preferential love from love as the royal law, love as mutual eg
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Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION; Works of Love; First Series; PREFACE; I. Love's Hidden Life and Its Recognizability by Its Fruits; II. A. You Shall Love; B. You Shall Love the Neighbor; C. You Shall Love the Neighbor; III. A. Romans 13:10. Love Is the Fulfilling of the Law; B. Love Is a Matter of Conscience; IV. Our Duty to Love the People We See; V. Our Duty to Remain in Love's Debt to One Another; Second Series; PREFACE; I. Love Builds Up; II. Love Believes All Things-and Yet Is Never Deceived; III. Love Hopes All Things-and Yet Is Never Put to Shame. IV. Love Does Not Seek Its OwnV. Love Hides a Multitude of Sins; VI. Love Abides; VII. Mercifulness, a Work of Love Even If It Can Give Nothing and Is Able to Do Nothing; VIII. The Victory of the Conciliatory Spirit in Love, Which Wins the One Overcome; IX. The Work of Love in Recollecting One Who Is Dead; X. The Work of Love in Praising Love; CONCLUSION; SUPPLEMENT; Key to References; Original Title Pages of Works of Love, First and Second Series; Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Works of Love; EDITORIAL APPENDIX; Acknowledgments. Collation of Works of Love in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected WorksNotes; Bibliographical Note; Index