Soren Kierkegaard

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1846 Victor Eremita’s Admirers One spring day in 1843, Meı ̈r Aron Goldschmidt took the initiative to arrange a not entirely ord ...

ever converse like that—as though beneath sun-dappled grape leaves by the shore of the Ionian Sea.” The gathering, in every othe ...

Bisserup, and a revolutionary watchmaker known as Danton. In the end, this fellow, Danton, was not included on the editorial com ...

the conservatives and the liberals but was clearly to the left of both groups. And from that vantage point it soon spread fear a ...

of literary taste had now come to an end. The paper was read by everyone, from plebeian to aristocrat. Indeed, it even found its ...

a thin man, whose shoulders hunched forward a bit. His face had a healthy color and his eyes had a superior look, reflecting equ ...

“the article was lacking in composition” and therefore called upon Gold- schmidt to apply himself to “comic composition.” Goldsc ...

he could be so well informed about what was going on all over town. Goldschmidt answered modestly that he in fact was no better ...

the man behind a number of polemical articles in the journalsPortefeuille andFigaro; that he had been awarded the university’s g ...

another; that sort of camaraderie should be left to the sort of people who go bowling. But if Møller’s attitude lacked “intimacy ...

Skamlingsbanken, where, after being provoked by a baptized Jew, he shouted from the podium to the many thousands gathered there: ...

treat the entire matter as a joke. But when I reported to Møller about my unsuccessful mission he took the matter more seriously ...

Andersen, whose biography Møller included in hisDanish Pantheonand whose fairy tales he defended against Heiberg and Heiberg’s g ...

naked sensuality, he was also abel hommewho practiced what he poetized about. Møller actually engaged in what so many others mer ...

who had petitioned for freedom of the press, and it earned Møller a stiff reprimand. And several years later, when he applied fo ...

ality into philosophical reflection. Once again, by chance or by design, Møller has struck Kierkegaard at the point where the th ...

Sorø.” The story was set in Carsten Hauch’s parlor in Sorø, where Møller and various literary notables had assembled for an even ...

moves through the language like an English clown, walking on his hands and making somersaults with the language, but he has no s ...

all the dark possibilities in a person’s nature and to bring them forth as if they had either been actualized or were very close ...