Soren Kierkegaard

own works at least two times—indeed, some portions even three or four times—but there were also the “meditations” when he took w ...

respect.” For it is in fact an artistic feat to be able to transfer to the written page the cadences of speech, the pauses, the ...

property: It cannot be summarized, only quoted. When one begins summa- rizing Kierkegaard’s writings (try to summarizeRepetition ...

“I feel fortunate to be bound to my mother tongue, bound as perhaps only few are, bound as Adam was to Eve because there was no ...

this Hilarius Bookbinder discovered a package containing several manu- scripts; he wrapped them in colored paper and stored them ...

script into print—and to this extent it was indeed “of him.” The manuscript is titled “Several Things about Marriage in Response ...

that obviously were of sentimental value to their owner, but in themselves were totally worthless. Nonetheless, Frater Taciturnu ...

drawn figure than the Young Man ever was, far more intense and notice- ably deeper. The diary does not describe a linear develop ...

Here Kierkegaard, of all people, is himself doing what is so often and so properly feared with respect to biographical presentat ...

very gifted intellectually. Both were witty, especially the father. Certainly everyone who knew their home and who paid a visit ...

pened, he isolated himself still further, but then suddenly became sick, sick unto death. While he lay there at death’s door, th ...

dren’s faces to see if he could recognize his own features in theirs and ascer- tain whether he was the father, Michael Kierkega ...

years, however. If the treatment was ended too early, the contagious mate- rial circulated within the organism and could pass th ...

a sin of quite a different order, that in his youth he had been like a wild animal and had contracted an infectious disease, a s ...

The most horrifying part was not included inThe Concept of Anxiety, however. Rather, it cowered shamefully in the last of the ni ...

aged David with a peculiar horror. The theme is shame and is sounded in the very first lines: “If there is any such thing as the ...

penhagen centaur, an inhuman colossus, a horrid hybrid of mutually de- structive opposites: a man of wisdom who was lacking in c ...

his “body was wet with the dew of the heavens and his hair became as long as the feathers of eagles and his nails like the claws ...

Herodotus in Friedrich Lange’s German translation,The Histories of Herodo- tus, while Diogenes Laertius’ work had been translate ...

From a psychological point of view, this systematic distancing of himself from his own story might seem like an act of repressio ...