Editorial Matter · Translator’s Note § III

Lexicon of Systematic Terms

The Danish terms carried, throughout the corpus, in the renderings indicated

These are not arbitrary lexical choices but the conceptual structure of the works. Each appears in Danish, in italic, on its first occurrence, with the English rendering as a gloss; subsequent occurrences appear in English alone unless the Danish term has acquired a determination the English cannot carry. The full lexicon is in the electronic apparatus; the table here reports the terms most central to the argument.

Danish	English	First occurrence	Comments
Springet	the leap	Vol. VII § 6	Vigilian-Climacean usage; cf. BA III.A.2. Not "transition" (Lowrie 1948) or "jump."
Øieblikket	the moment	Vol. VII § 16 (philosophically loaded); Vol. I § 1.8 (ordinary sense)	Not "blink of an eye" (Lowrie 1948).
Indesluttethed	closed-up-ness	Vol. VII § 12	Not "introversion" (Lowrie 1948), "inclosing reserve" (HH 1980), "Verschlossenheit" (Haecker 1928). The Danish morphology (indes-luttet-hed) is preserved by the English compound.
Svimmelhed	dizziness	Vol. VII § 9	Not "giddiness" (Lowrie 1948). Cf. BA II.2: "Angest er Frihedens Svimmelhed."
hiin Enkelte	that single reader	Vol. II Forord	The archaic hiin + Enkelte preserves the period-distance. Not "the single individual," not "yon individual."
Mediation	Mediation (retained, italic)	Vols. I, V, VI, VII, VIII	Notabene uses the German form throughout, against the more idiomatic Danish Formidling. Retained in the original German in the English translation.
Aufhebung	Aufhebung (retained, italic)	Vols. I, VI	Notabene uses the German form. Retained. The Danish ophævelse appears in different contexts and is rendered as "supersession" or "cancellation" as the sense requires.
Bekjendtgjørelse	announcement	Vols. I, III, VII, VIII	The principal term of the announcement-procedure. Not "advertisement" (commercial overtones absent in the Danish).
Løfte	promise	Vol. VII § 7	The principal term of the promise-doctrine. Distinct from German Versprechen in Hegelian usage.
Alvor	earnestness	Vols. VI, VII, VIII	Opposite of Spøg (jest, jocular conduct). The Danish-Kierkegaardian pair preserved in the English.
Spøg	jest	passim	The literary-light counterpart of Alvor.
Aand	spirit	passim	Capital where the context is theological-philosophical; lower-case where ordinary (aand = "breath," "spirit of the room," etc.).
Sind	mind, temperament, spirit	passim	Context-dependent. Reported in apparatus where the ambiguity is philosophically loaded.
Stemning	mood, attunement	passim	Mostly "mood"; "attunement" where the philosophically loaded Heideggerian-Kierkegaardian sense is foregrounded.
Selskab	society	Vols. V passim	The Danish covers both the institutional society (Selskab for Total-Afholdenhed) and the informal company (a social gathering); rendered as "Society" (capital) for the former and "society" (lower) for the latter.
Forening	association	Vols. V passim	The looser counterpart of Selskab; rendered as "association."
Underforening	sub-society	Vol. V	The constituents under a parent Selskab.
Tro	faith	Vols. VI, VII	The Lutheran-Christian sense throughout; not rendered as "trust" or "confidence" even where the modern English would do so.
Frihed	freedom	Vol. VII passim	The Vigilian-Notabenian sense throughout.
Idee	Idea (capital)	Vols. I, VI	The Hegelian-speculative sense. Lower-case where the ordinary Danish sense is intended.
Begreb	concept	Vols. I, VI	The Hegelian Begriff. The Danish Begreb shares the philosophical and ordinary senses; rendered "concept" for the philosophical, "notion" for the ordinary.

See the Translator’s Note for the principles behind these decisions.