D. Anthony Storm's Commentary on Kierkegaard
This site contains an online Commentary on the writings of the nineteenth century existentialist philosopher Søren Aabye Kierkegaard. Information on every published work and article (including many unfinished writings and journal entries) are presented here with publication data, quotes, detailed commentary, and images. There are also supplementary materials to aid in your research. A good place to start is to go straight to the Commentary itself where you can view abstracts of the works before diving in. You can also access every entry of the Commentary through the navigation on the right without returning to the Commentary page. By selecting the "Expand / Collapse Commentary" link you can expand and collapse the menus, quickly drilling down to the information you want. Those links are arranged according to time periods. Enter the Commentary now.
Navigation and Accessibility
Visual Accessibility
Throughout the site you will see buttons near the top of the right panel. These allow you to change between high and low contrast combinations. Many find a high contrast (dark background) more soothing to the eye. Your browser also has a built-in function to change text size.
Keyboard Accessibility
The right navigational panel is tab-indexed for easy keyboard accessibilty, and will drill through the "Expand / Collapse Commentary" menu. I have also provided the following access keys for keyboard navigation between pages. Firefox users: shift+alt+access key. Internet Explorer users: alt+access key, then hit enter.
| Page | Access Key |
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| Commentary | 1 |
| Method | 2 |
| Primer | 3 |
| Biography | 4 |
| Bibliography | 5 |
| Gallery | 6 |
| Links | 7 |
| Site Map | 8 |
| Contact | 9 |
| Home | 0 |
Technical Notes
This site was designed with only the newer browsers in mind. Because they are freely obtainable, I feel that it is reasonable for users to upgrade their browsers regularly. I have tested this site on Mozilla Firefox 2 and 3 for Windows XP and Vista respectively. I have also tested it on Internet Explorer 7 and 8 for Vista. Note: I have dropped support for IE6. I happen to believe that Firefox is greatly preferable, as it is more secure, and supports more web display technology (CSS). I have also made the decision to support 1024 X 768 screen resolution as a minimum standard. I am sorry that I could not test on a Mac.
If for any reason you have JavaScript turned off in your browser, you will not be able to view the abstracts on the main Commentary page, nor switch programmatically between style sheets. However, the expandable navigation and the Commentary abstracts will be fully expanded by default.
Acknowledgements
None of the historical images at this site are owned by me. Either they were scanned from books or found on the web. Grateful acknowledgement goes to Kierkegaard Manuscripts at Det Kongelige Bibliotek for their excellent and helpful web site on Kierkegaard, the source for many of the images at this site. Thanks to Wikipedia for the image of SK's statue and another image of SK. Thanks to Bradley K. Warden for the photo and text for Kierkegaard's Cupboard which resides at The Søren Kierkegaard Collection in Copenhagen City Museum (Bymuseum).
Acknowledgement goes to Princeton University Press for its publication of Kierkegaard's Writings, which is the definitive English translation of Kierkegaard's works. Most of the lengthy quotations are from this source, as well as the images of the works' title pages, and other images. Acknowledgement also goes to Penguin Books for Alastair Hannay's Journal and Papers: A Selection for many of the journal quotes.
The script used for the abstracts on the Commentary page is powered by the jquery javascript library. The stylesheet switcher script was written by Kelvin Luck using jquery. The "accordion" script used for the expanding and contracting navigation (and the Commentary abstracts) was developed at Learning jQuery.
About The Author D. Anthony Storm
I have a BA in French with minors in Latin and Greek, and have completed the course work for a PhD in Classical Studies from CUNY. But my knowledge of Kierkegaard is largely self taught from decades of reading. I am an amateur in the best sense of the term. An amateur is, after all, one who indulges in something for the love of it. By trade I am a Web Developer. I am responsible for all content and coding (except as mentioned above), and hold the copyright for all text except for quoted material.
How To Cite This Website
Storm, D. Anthony. D. Anthony Storm's Commentary on Kierkegaard. Available at http://www.sorenkierkegaard.org/. Accessed YYYY-MM-DD. [i.e. date of access].
Last update: May 21, 2009.
