"In the scholarly world much is made of classifying literature and assigning the writing of each individual author to its proper place in the age and the writing of the age and in that of the human race. Yet no one thinks about what might be gained if one or another literary type could be trained to read only prologues, but to do it so thoroughly that he would begin with the earliest times and advance through all the centuries down to our own day. Prologues are characterized by the accidental, like dialects, idioms, colloquialisms; they are dominated by fashion in a way entirely different from the way works are-they change like clothing."
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Prefaces, written by Søren Kierkegaard, was published on the same date that The Concept of Anxiety was published, June 17, 1844. Both books deal with the new idea of mediation. First Kierkegaard's wife mediated his writing, then Heiberg mediated his book Either/Or and finally Hegel was introducing mediation into the world. In The Concept of Anxiety his consciousness of sin is mediated by Adam's first sin. Prefaces is made up of eight separate prefaces because Nicolas Notabene, the pseudonymous a
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