Soren Kierkegaard

donymous author and its mysterious publisher, the work was indebted to Kierkegaard, whose appraisal of the work Boesen of course ...

“In one sense you really don’t know much about my life, its intentions and aims,” Søren Aabye wrote on Wednesday, May 19, 1847, ...

total of my writings.” This was affectionately thought and expressed, but reality would certainly turn out quite differently. Th ...

generally believe that the tendency of a person’s thoughts is determined by external circumstances... .But this is not so .That ...

that your visit would be in vain a second time .And there is no repetition (cf.Repetition)—so in all human probability you will ...

weeks late—something the dialectically talented uncle was often game enough to make the theme of the letter itself .He was very ...

admiring the various things, before ‘Anders,’ Uncle Søren’s faithful servant, the well-known bringer of many a pleasant surprise ...

1845 “Big Enough to Be a Major City” “Some of my countrymen probably think that Copenhagen is a boring town and a small town. To ...

to be lit on those days when, according to the almanac, the moon would notbeshining! ItwasinthiscitythattheDanishGoldenAgedevelo ...

The seats were narrow wooden benches covered with leather or coarse fabric, and if one went up to the box seats one had to make ...

nowitwasopeninguptoscenesofabandonforwhichCopenhagenershad longedfordecades.OutofregardforTivolirevelers,thegateatVesterport wou ...

“I Came Close to Dancing with Them” Kierkegaard was a Copenhagener with a capital C, and he knew the city like the palm of his h ...

variousschoolsoffishes.”Kierkegaardwasnotindoubtastothegenre:“It shouldbeginwithalyrictomybelovedcapitalcityandplaceofresidence, ...

artistic necessity would encounter each other in his immediate presence, producing asituation, as happened, for example, one eve ...

and encountered a suspect-looking character from the Poorhouse (the workhouseforconvictsandthedestitute):“TodayafellowfromthePoo ...

Kierkegaard’sformwaseasilyrecognizablewithits“highshoulders,the restless, somewhat hopping gait,” as Arthur Abrahams described h ...

Althoughthislastdetailconcerninghischoiceofclothingshouldproba- bly be ascribed to an excessive enthusiasm for fiction, the reco ...

scoundrel, politely saying, ‘Wouldn’t you be good enough to turn this in ifyoushouldby chancegopastapolicestation?’” Noteveryper ...

with everyone” to take his companion by the arm, lending the walk an intimacy that was noted by many of his contemporaries and t ...

so many people. In a few remarks he took up the thread from an earlier conversation and carried it a step further, to a point wh ...