PREFACE SELDOM perhaps has a literary enterprise been more favored by fortune, or had
a reception more in accordance with the author's wishes, than was the case with my
Philosophical Fragments. 1 Hesitant and reserved as it is my custom to be in connection with
every form of self-appraisal, I dare nevertheless affirm one thing, and that with confidence,
about the fate of the little book: it has created no sensation, absolutely none. Undisturbed,
and in compliance with his own motto:" Better well hung than ill wed," 2 the well-hung author�…

Those with an acute ear for language will pause at the title Concluding Unscientific
Postscript. Don't postscripts conclude anyway? Besides, strictly speaking, a postscript is not
really a conclusion at all, but an addition, perhaps an afterthought, or a supplement, even an
appended note commenting on what the reader has read previously. Some clarification is
needed to assure the reader that here as elsewhere Kierkegaard has chosen his language
with care. Perhaps this 'postscript'was meant to be concluding in more ways than one, or�…