Kierkegaard's Writings, XXII

As a spiritual autobiography, Kierkegaard's *The Point of View for My Work as an Author* stands among such great works as Augustine's *Confessions* and Newman's *Apologia pro Vita Sua*. Yet *Point of View* is neither a confession nor a defense; it is an author's story of a lifetime of writing, his understanding of the maze of greatly varied works that make up his oeuvre.

Upon the imminent publication of the second edition of *Either/Or* , Kierkegaard again intended to cease writing. Now was the time for a direct "report to history" on the authorship as a whole. In addition to *Point of View* , which was published posthumously, the present volume also contains *On My Work as an Author* , a contemporary substitute, and the companion piece *Armed Neutrality*.