Soren Kierkegaard

ically of Mrs. Schlegel’s division between her husband and the sweetheart of her youth: “I cannot say [whether this] played a ro ...

Mrs. Schlegel was loyal and lovable to the last, happy to have been taken into history. Therefore, the question of how thingsact ...

She remained silent.” Regine remained silent, even “essentially silent,” which perhaps is not difficult to understand. And Kierk ...

Rørdam, who in addition to his sons Peter and Hans had left three comely and marriageable daughters, Elisabeth, Emma, and Bolett ...

the wood dove builds its nest in my branches.—Sunday, July 9, in Freder- iksber gGardens, after callin gat the Rørdams.” What ha ...

returned to her early in 1856 by the executors of Kierkegaard’s estate, and she burned them, so we will have to make do with hal ...

Nonetheless (or rather, precisely for this reason) as early as his very first letter, dated September 16, he tied Regine quite l ...

There is, of course, no such folk tale. Kierkegaard is merely creating a fiction. The fiction is bleak, however, because it info ...

excitement, but utterly lackin gin concreteness. This distance from the world and from everyday life was repeated in a letter of ...

would not be satisfied with brilliantly written letters; she wanted to be out there atop the seventy thousand restless fathoms, ...

resent a bygone time.” This sounds just exactly as ominous as it was. Kier- kegaard continued, with brusque sarcasm: “It is love ...

The Time of Terrors Kierkegaard had plenty to keep him busy in the new year. In the middle of November 1840 he had enrolled in t ...

I constantly remember it. It did not know that the two of us together pre- served its memory.” The symbolism in the letter and t ...

most important of these things to paper.” Here, to put it mildly, Sibbern was bein gquite irritatin g. Eline Boisen, on the othe ...

“She was in despair. For the first time in my life I scolded. It was the only thin gto do.” He went directly from 66 Børs gade t ...

tion with Miss Olsen (Regina).” The question mark was appropriate be- cause the break in fact took place the next day, Monday, O ...

nant, Cornelia was resurrected as Cordelia, who is one of the loveliest and most intense female figures, not merely in Kierkegaa ...

fall of the auctioneer’s hammer”; no, in this case what matters is “being honest about the past.” And then he continues in the f ...

1841 On the Concept of Irony “An arrow of pain has been lodged in my heart since my earliest childhood. As long as it remains th ...

condition: “Irony is an abnormal development which, like the abnormality in the livers of Strasbourg geese, ends by killing the ...