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Prefaces ((デンマーク語:Forord)) is a book by Søren Kierkegaard published under the pseudonym Nicolaus Notabene. The meaning of the pseudonym used for ''Prefaces'', Nicholaus Notabene, was best summed up in his work Writing Sampler, where Kierkegaard said twice for emphasis, “Please read the following preface, because it contains things of the utmost importance.”〔''Prefaces/Writing Sampler'', by Søren Kierkegaard, Edited and Translated by Todd W. Nichol, Princeton University Press, 1997 P. 73, 90〕 He was trying to tell his critics to read the preface to his books because they have the key to understanding them. Nota bene is Latin for "note well". ==Context== ''Prefaces'' was published June 17, 1844, the same date as ''The Concept of Anxiety'' (also by a pseudonym: Vigilius Haufniensis). This was the second time Kierkegaard published his works on the same date, (the first being Oct 16, 1843, with the publication of ''Repetition'' alongside ''Three Upbuilding Discourses, 1843'' and ''Fear and Trembling''). Kierkegaard published 14 separate works between the publication of ''Either/Or'' on February 20, 1843 and ''Four Upbuilding Discourses'' which he published on August 31, 1844. Kierkegaard contrasted one fictional author with another frequently. This book and its companion piece, ''The Concept of Anxiety'', contrasts Notabene, who is mediated by his wife as well as his reviewer, with Haufniensis, who is against his knowledge of sin being mediated by Adam. Nicolaus Notabene is a married man who wants to be a writer. His new wife becomes suspicious and forces him to vow to write only prefaces.〔''Prefaces'' p. 6-12 This section is autobiographical and can be related to Kierkegaard's relationship with Regine Olsen.〕 It is a series of prefaces for unwritten books, books unwritten because the fictitious Notabene's wife has sworn to divorce him if he ever becomes a writer.〔Prefaces p. 6-12〕 But for Notabene writing a preface is just a (prelude ) to an act, it’s “like sharpening a scythe or like tuning a guitar”.〔''Prefaces'' p.5〕 He tried flattering his wife by telling her she is the “muse who inspires him,” but she says, “Either a properly married man or …”〔''Prefaces'' p. 11 Here is an either/or situation. Either give up your writing or give me up. Kierkegaard discussed the idea of the muse several times: Repetition p. 141 compare to Either/Or Part 1, Swenson, The Immediate Stages of the Erotic or the Musical Erotic – p. 43-134〕 He “promises not to insist on being an author.” Since he wants to live in the “literary world” he makes sure he lives up to the “custom” of the “sacred vow”. He writes prefaces about “the reading public's” relationship to an author. The author has to “live in public view” once she publishes a book. Notabene then attacks reviewers of books in general, calling them “the highly trusted minions of the most esteemed public, its cupbearers and privy counselors" and the reviewers of his books, ''Either/Or'' and ''Repetition'', Johan Ludvig Heiberg and Hans Lassen Martensen in particular.〔See ''A Word Of Thanks To Professor Heiberg'' http://sorenkierkegaard.org/word-thanks-professor-heiberg.html〕 Kierkegaard was complaining because his books weren't being read, they were being mediated. He says, “a rumor carries away the reading public as the muse’s impulse the poet, since like always effects like.”〔Prefaces p. 15, 19〕 And the rumor was that all theologians should be philosophers. Kierkegaard put it this way. Notabene makes fun of Hieberg because Hieberg seems to want to explain everything, just like Hegel. Both want to be mediators of understanding. But Notabene says, My frame, my health, my entire constitution do not lend themselves to mediation. It may well be that this is a flaw, but when I myself confess it, surely one might humor me. When the word “mediation” is merely mentioned everything becomes so magnificent and grandiose that I do not feel well but am oppressed and chafed. Have compassion on me in only this one respect; exempt me from mediation and, what is a necessary consequence, from becoming the innocent occasion that would cause one or another philosophical prattler to repeat, like a child at the chancel step, something I indeed know well enough: the history of modern philosophy’s beginning with Descartes, and the philosophical fairy tale about how being and nothing〔See ''The Concept of Anxiety'' p. 41-42, 76-77, 95 and ''A Short History of Existentialism'' p. 4-5 by Jean Wahl, 1949 The Philosophical Library〕 combine their deficiencies so that becoming emerges from it, along with whatever other amazing things happened later in the continuation of the tale, which is very animated and moving although it is not a tale but a purely logical movement. ''Prefaces'' p. 45 Vigilius Haufniensis says the same thing in ''The Concept of Anxiety'', 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prefaces」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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