Table of Contents

Historical IntroductionLove's Hidden Life and Its Recognition by Its Fruits5You Shall Love17You Shall Love the Neighbor44You Shall Love the Neighbor61Romans 13:10. Love Is the Fulfilling of the Law91Love Is a Matter of Conscience135Our Duty to Love the People We See154Our Duty to Remain in Love's Debt to One Another175Love Builds Up209Love Believes All Things - and Yet Is Never Deceived225Love Hopes All Things - and Yet Is Never Put to Shame246Love Does Not Seek Its Own264Love Hides a Multitude of Sins280Love Abides300Mercifulness, a Work of Love Even If It Can Give Nothing and Is Able to Do Nothing315The Victory of the Conciliatory Spirit in Love, Which Wins the One Overcome331The Work of Love in Recollecting One Who Is Dead345The Work of Love in Praising Love359Conclusion375Supplement387Key to References388Original Title Pages of Works of Love, First and Second Series390Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Works of Love395Editorial Appendix489Acknowledgments491Collation of Works of Love in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works493Notes499Bibliographical Note529Index531

About the Author

Howard V. Hong, the former Director of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, is the General Editor of Kierkegaard's Writings. Edna H. Hong is a poet, writer, and translator who has collaborated with Professor Hong on other English translations of Kierkegaard's works.

Reviews

"The definitive edition of the Writings. The first volume ... indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent notes."--Library Journal