ABSTRACT
Nicolaus Notabene is better known as the pseudonymous author that Kierkegaard used for Prefaces. Within a period of two weeks in June 1844, Kierkegaard accomplished the impressive feat of publishing four books: Three Upbuilding Discourses on June 8, signed by Kierkegaard himself; Philosophical Fragments, or a Fragment of Philosophy on June 13, by Johannes Climacus and edited by S. Kierkegaard, followed by the simultaneous publication on June 17 of The Concept of Anxiety by Vigilius Haufniensis and Prefaces by Nicolaus Notabene. There was a further link between The Concept of Anxiety and Prefaces, inasmuch as the original preface of the former work eventually became Preface VII of the latter. This occurred because of the very intense polemical tone of the piece, which proved to be inadequate for the “somewhat didactical form”1 of a book such as The Concept of Anxiety.
