About SKC

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The Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre (SKC) is an independent foundation. The Center has a Board of Directors, its chairman and vice chairman being appointed by the National Research Foundation. Other members of the Board are appointed by the University of Copenhagen, the Society for Danish Language and Literature, and the Royal Library.

Dr. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn is director of SKC and as such responsible for the daily operations of the Center.

The purpose of the SKC is a.: to carry out and promote Kierkegaard research from literary, theological and philosophical perspectives at both the national and international level b.: to establish a new complete edition of all of Kierkegaard’s writings: the works he himself had published, as well as the ones he left unfinished. The new edition will also include his journals, notebooks and loose papers, and his letters and biographical documents. The new edition carries the name of Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter. [ Søren Kierkegaard’s Writings]

Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter will consist of 55 volumes: 28 text volumes and 27 commentary volumes.

With its 55 volumes, this is the largest comprehensive edition of Danish literature in a century, if not in all of Danish history.

This Danish edition will subsequently be translated into English, German, French, Spanish, and Chinese.

An electronic version will also be established, containing not only the full printed version, but also the collected drafts for published and unpublished works, as well as the second edition of works, which were published by Kierkegaard himself. The first electronic version was published on the web in 2007.

Approximately 35 people work in the SKC equally distributed among regular positions and guest researchers on grants for shorter or longer periods of time, funded by the SKC or by other sources, counting several nationalities. Also see News from The Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Kierkegaard Studies. Yearbook 2009, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2009.

According to an agreement with the University of Copenhagen, the Kierkegaard library was moved from the Faculty of Theology to SKC, which is now also responsible for the supervision of Ph.D. and Master’s students who are writing their theses on various aspects of Kierkegaard’s works.