Author:David Ferdinand Swenson

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David Ferdinand Swenson (1876–1940)

Swenson was an authority on the life and writings of the Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, and spent much of his professional life translating Kierkegaard's works into English.[1]

Works

• Soren Kiergkegaard (1919) OCLC 52125729^{all editions}
• Sören Kierkegaard Scandinavian Studies and Notes Editor A. M. STURTEVANT University of Kansas VOLUME VI, No. 1 AUGUST, 1921

Translations of Soren Kierkegaard

• Philosophical Fragments (1936) OCLC 1132049^{all editions}
• Two Discourses (1938) OCLC 15007143^{all editions}

Posthumously published by co-contributor and wife Lillian Marvin Swenson

• Edifying Discourses (1943-1947)
  • Volume I
  • Volume II Renewal R519370
  • Volume III Renewal R548231
  • Volume IV Renewal R575358
• Either/Or: Volume 1 (1945) — Copyrighted in the United States due to Renewal R517166
  • Republished in 1959, with revisions and a foreword by H. A. Johnson Renewal RE347085
• Works of Love (1946)
• Gospel of Suffering (1947) — Copyrighted in the United States due to Renewal R602804
• Lilies of the Field (1948).

Works about David Swenson

By wife Lillian Marvin Swenson

• Something About Kierkegaard (1941) — Copyrighted in the United States due to Renewal R447260 . A collection of Swenson's philosophical talks
• Thoughts on crucial situations in human life; three discourses on imagined occasions Renewal R447259
• Kierkegaardian Philosophy and the Faith of a Scholar (1949), a collection of Swenson's addresses and essays

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