Philosophical Fragments

He works there.

He checks out Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety and Philosophical Fragments and Jean Wall's book, Etude Kierkegaardienne.

He notes that he's reading the Concept of Anxiety in the journals.

So this occasions a major shift in Bataille's thinking and writing.

It's a major transformation.

But this knowing that one knows nothing is, of course, a Socratic term, right? Socratic dictum.

Bataille, of course, obviously is borrowing it not from Plato, but from Kierkegaard, from the philosophical fragments.

which is written in dialogue with Socrates.

Signed discourses reflecting on confession, marriage, and death at a grave site.

Philosophical Fragments, uh, June 4th, or June...

Excuse me.

June 13th, 1844, published under Johannes Climacus, investigates whe- whether truth can be learned, and contrasts Socratic recollection with the Christian paradox of temporal incarnation.

Stages on Life's Way, April 30th, 1845, edited by Hilarius Bookbinder.

A multi-perk part, a multi-part work that expands upon Either/Or, outlining the three spheres of existence: aesthetic, ethical, religious.

Concluding Unscientific Post- Postscripts to Philosophical Fragments, uh, February 27th, 1846.

Published under Johannes Climacus.