Soren Kierkegaard

1843 Either/Or “Here I stand, then, face to face with the reading public at this important moment. I confess m yfrailt y: I have ...

sions and innuendoes.” “Because,” as Beck explained, “what ma ybe pleas- ing or acceptable in an informal chat or in a conversat ...

certain Copenhagen magister who, as time passed, was not an utterl yob- scure person. In doing all this Kierkegaard went to extr ...

book has attracted much attention. It has not yet been discussed publicly b yan yone, but it surel ywill be. It is actuall ysupp ...

considerations and tears to pieces one’s own soul and all hol yfeelings! But this sort of thing has an effect. It is reasonable ...

of the person who is holding one b ythe arm. One encounters man ypiquant thoughts, some of which, perhaps, are even profound. On ...

and was wounded b ythis “impertinent and dandified review”—Heiberg’s “little slap”—it was in part because he had regarded himsel ...

and which had come b yits name honestl y: Its contributors included such established talents as Mynster, Martensen, Holst, Hertz ...

he added this comment: “In a review inForpostenI see it quite properly pointed out that this tale is not called ‘A Seducer’s Dia ...

amusing as “the necessar yproph ylaxis against boredom”), to the “Ultima- tum” of the second part. Like others, Hagen showed res ...

frequentl yventures into diffuse territor y, and since the author has to make one fresh start after another, one often encounter ...

since everyone who had eyes to read with ran out and bought the work in order to be properl ynauseated b yits disgusting and rev ...

literature, concerned less about contemporar yreaders than about future ones. At some point in the summer of 1843 he jotted down ...

thirtieth birthday. It would have been difficult for the preface to have been more reverential, but Kierkegaard nonetheless sudd ...

on occasion, he did not push it to the same extreme as man yother young “devotees of scholarship.” After these authoritative rem ...

vespers and gave a more detailed explanation: “She nodded twice. I shook m yhead. That meant, ‘You must give me up.’ Then she no ...

battlement of a castle, waving her veil. No sooner had he remembered the verse than the conductor again shouted “Sie haben mit d ...

Out of these motle ystates of mind and travel weariness arose the idea for a new work,Repetition, which he mentioned in a few ha ...

happier than ever. It is a new crisis. It means either that I will now begin to live or that I must die. There could also be ano ...

repetitions, and in a religious direction that links the proper sort of repeti- tion to God. The two different directions are re ...