Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1844

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Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1844

The Søren Kierkegaard statue in the Royal Library Garden og Slotsholmen in Copenhagen, Denmark
Author	Søren Kierkegaard
Original title	Fire opbyggelige Taler
Translator	David Swenson, Howard V Hong
Language	Danish
Series	First authorship (Discourses)
Genre	Christianity, philosophy
Published	1990 Princeton University Press
Publication date	August 31, 1844
Publication place	Denmark
Published in English	1946 – first translation
Media type	Hardcover
Pages	~110
ISBN	0691020876
Preceded by	The Concept of Anxiety
Followed by	Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions

Four Upbuilding Discourses (1844) is the last of the Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses published during the years 1843–1844 by Søren Kierkegaard. He published three more discourses on "crucial situations in life" (Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions) in 1845, the situations being confession, marriage, and death. These three areas of life require a "decision made in time".^[1]