X2 A 66).

52 The reference is to Johannes Climacus, who at the end of Concluding Unscientific Postscript declared that the book was superfluous and that no one should cite it as an authority, because to be an authority is too burdensome for a humorist. Therefore the book has no conclusion, only a revocation. See KW XII (SV VII 537–43, Appendix).

53 JP VI 6446 (Pap. X1 A 548).

54 JP VI 6450 (Pap. X1 A 557).

55 JP VI 6347 (Pap. X1 A 118).

56 JP VI 6518 (Pap. X5 B 206).

57 The preface to Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843) and the prefaces to the subsequent five volumes of discourses (1843–44) state that the book “is called ‘discourses,’ not sermons, because its author does not have authority to preach, ‘upbuilding discourses,’ not discourses for upbuilding, because the speaker by no means claims to be a teacher.” “For upbuilding,” Kierkegaard wrote in a journal entry pertaining to The Sickness unto Death, “is more than my category, the poet-category: upbuilding” (JP VI 6431; Pap. X1 A 510). The “upbuilding” includes, therefore, Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses (KW V) and other signed discourses: Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions (KW X), Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits (KW XV), Works of Love (KW XVI), Christian Discourses (KW XVII), and The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air (KW XVIII), which refers to the preface to Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843) and was published a few weeks before The Sickness unto Death. See note 61 below.

58 The lower pseudonyms are Victor Eremita, Mr. A, Judge William, Johannes de Silentio, Constantin Constantius, Johannes Climacus, Vigilius Haufniensis, Nicolaus Notabene, Hilarius Bookbinder, Frater Taciturnus, and Inter et Inter, the editors or authors of the whole or a part of Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Repetition, Fragments and Postscript, The Concept of Anxiety, Prefaces, Stages, and The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress. Kierkegaard (Kjerkegaard on title page) is stated as the editor of the earliest work, From the Pages of One Still Living, but no pseudonym is used.

59 The higher pseudonyms are H. H., the author of Two Minor Ethical-Religious Essays (published May 19, 1849, six weeks before The Sickness unto Death) and Anti-Climacus. See note 58 above; Supplement, p. 140 (Pap. X1 A 530); JP V 6349, 6462 (Pap. X6 B 48; X1 A 594).

60 Kierkegaard regarded all the works by the lower pseudonyms (see note 58 above) as esthetic. In the preface to The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air (published at the same time as the second edition of Either/Or, May 14, 1849), Kierkegaard stated that “it is offered with the right hand,” in contrast to the pseudonymous work, “which was held out and is held out with the left” (KW XVIII; SV X15). The same differentiating observation pertains to all the esthetic works or lower pseudonymous works and to the upbuilding works (see note 57 above).

61 Included among the pseudonymous works “for upbuilding” are presumably Two Minor Ethical-Religious Essays, by H. H., and the Anti-Climacus works Practice in Christianity and The Sickness unto Death (with “for Upbuilding” on the title page). The phrase is used on the division page of Part Three of the signed work Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits. See JP VI 6431, 6436, 6438 (Pap. X1 A 510, 520, 529).

62 JP VI 6461 (Pap. X1 A 593). In a sense, the entire authorship was “for awakening” through the positing of a choice between the esthetical and the religious (see JP VI 6520; Pap. X2 A 150). However, the expression “for awakening” is used explicitly for the pseudonymous works by Anti-Climacus: The Sickness unto Death and Practice in Christianity (see title pages). In The Point of View, Kierkegaard used the expression “epigram of awakening” (KW XXII; SV XIII 557). See JP VI 6436, 6438 (Pap. X1 A 520, 529).

63 Postscript, KW XII (SV VII 537, 539).

64 JP VI 6433 (Pap.