ABSTRACT
Hidehito Otani's A Study of Kierkegaard's Authorship, Investigation into the Structure of the Entirety of his Works was published in 1991 by Keisou-shobou, as the second volume of his massive work. Otani proposes four dialectical perspectives in order to discern their relations in Kierkegaard's works. The first dialectical perspective is Kierkegaard's dual authorship of pseudonymous and signed works. The second dialectical perspective is to categorize certain of Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works according to the concept of movement of ascent and descent. The third perspective is the dialectical self-stultification of pseudonymous works from Either/Or to the Postscript, that is, the goal is to help the readers to make the choice to abandon their aesthetical and speculative lives by revealing the vanity of those lives. The fourth dialectical perspective is not to categorize Kierkegaard's works according to the theory of the three stages, the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious, but to categorize his works according to the theory of the three realms.
