Soren Kierkegaard

its original terror and insist on Abraham’s tale as the stor yof the impact of the alien and the terrifying, the demonically sub ...

temporar ypoet who senses such collisions.” After this search he produced a sketch of the missing person, and a rhetoricall yrew ...

Then Isaac trembled and cried out in his anguish: ‘God in heaven, have merc yupon me. God of Abraham, have merc yupon me. If I h ...

and made himself into a nursing mother who, precisel ybecause she cares for her child, blackens her breast andwithdraws her love ...

that not even Abraham, the father of faith, possesses faith unconditionally: “And where could I seek shelter,” Kierkegaard had w ...

demonic qualities. This is accomplished b ymeans of an entire series of varia- tions, of which one, several, or perhaps all, exp ...

which in the first three instances is directed toward the gaze, toward vision, the eye. Agnetesaysnothing at all, she onlysees, ...

tion for a new paragraph. Onl ythe reader, in his or her private reflections, knows whatelsetakes place in the narrow strip of b ...

ver ymoment I la ye yes on him, I immediatel ythrust him awa yand I m yself jump back, clasp m yhands together, and sa ysotto vo ...

“elevation.” Though their upward leaps are splendid, when the ycome back to earth again the yare incapable of immediatel yassumi ...

cause unlike what the dimwitted pastor assumes, the sleepless man is not possessed b ythe Devil, he is possessed b ythe stor y, ...

that the tale directs its message: “For the person who has once been exposed to these images can never be free of them again.” F ...

1844 The Concept of Anxiety “I am sitting and listening to the sounds within myself, to the joyous intima- tions of the music an ...

into the ninth notebook the text dissolves into hesitant little sketches, out- lines, and key words .At this point he put the dr ...

in his own name and to use his academic title,magister artium .Nor is the work without certain scholarly ambitions: It is compos ...

in order to conform to people and imitate their postures and attitudes; just as his silence during the moment of confidentiality ...

Captivating Anxiety—Pages from a Seducer’s Textbook While working on the draft ofThe Concept of Anxiety, Kierkegaard experi- enc ...

nes) does lift the curtain a bit .The rather authoritative description provided by the unnamed editor makes it clear that Johann ...

sion, in short everything substantial, but not in subjectively reflected form.” This is as it ought to be: In the deeper sense C ...

Producingthe interesting situationrequires combining intimacy and dis- tance, practicing the art of controlled self-abandonment, ...