Princeton University Press has already published in translation twelve of the literary works of Soren Kierkegaard. To these this anthology will serve as a helpful introduction. It is panoramic in scope. The editor has arranged the excerpts in chronoligcal order with introductory notes, together with passages from the Journals. The result is a volume valuable as biography and autobiography, as well as for its literary value.

Present interest in Kierkegaard, who lived obscurely a century ago in Denmark, is probably due in large measure to the fact that he is the recognized father of the existentialism now in vogue in France. This philosophy came to Sartre and his followers through Germany where it had been further developed by such distinguished scholars as Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidigger. This fact alone is enough to suggest that Kierkegaard's writings are of psychiatric and psychological interest,