Soren Kierkegaard

to King Christian VIII and his civil servants a letter in which he appealed to the precedents of Martin Hammerich and Adolph Pet ...

that the subjective element is too prominent.” Although they were not half- educated, nor (apart from Martensen) particularly He ...

effect its own disappearance without leaving a trace is illustrated with refer- ence to “that old witch” who decided “to devour ...

but he wasn’t up to pushing the idea, since this sort of negotiation was of course difficult and awkward in any case, and in Kie ...

to being rejected—were returned to Kierkegaard. On September 16, P. G. Philipsens Press reported that the dissertation was finis ...

1842 Stark Naked in Berlin Despite the fact that the scholarly evaluators found fault with the disserta- tion’s stylistic pranks ...

what would be seven letters to Emil Boesen. After several remarks about the journey, the coming lecture series, and other things ...

and therefore somewhat inflexible Boesen failed to get the point: He had loved madly and sadly and therefore would neither poeti ...

girl....When the wildness in my spirit overcomes me, I am almost tempted to approach her and not exactly with the ‘most honorabl ...

within me, as soon as anyone is present, every sigh is instantly transformed into something ironic, a witticism, et cetera....He ...

year under my supervision has not exactly made her more naive; it has taught her, among other things, that I take note of even t ...

with “my”! And then the confessions came fast and furious, in an avalanche: “Unlike me, you are not—I trust you will agree with ...

nonetheless filled with longing for the lost pleasure of love. So, unlike his firm and resolute letters to Boesen, his journals ...

Even when we carefully gather and assemble all the fragments deposited here and there in his journals and reported in his letter ...

evening in the company of Carl Weis, a connoisseur of fine food and later a department head in the Danish Ministry of Church and ...

The smashed windowpane is almost a symbol of Kierkegaard’s relation- ship to the lectures that were the official reason for his ...

thought within me leapt for joy as in Elizabeth. I remember almost every word he said from that moment on. Here, perhaps, clarit ...

nated through and through by a brilliant, imaginative vision. Here was a wonderful union of genius and level-headedness.” Like K ...

ing, I cannot complain.” But he did so anyway: “I really cannot conceive how I have been able to endure this servitude here in B ...

more literary braggadocio than documentable fact. It also requires a bit of metaphorical generosity to agree to the claim, which ...