Soren Kierkegaard

ness, but that was precisely the point and thus was not, as Møller—ambitious as he was for a professorial appointment—would have ...

“You will scarcely find any other way of disarming criticism with complete certainty than that of refraining from letting your w ...

other in the street and were often compelled to limit their conversations to polite greetings or to a bow displaying feigned res ...

see a little proof of how clever I am. That damned paper might get the idea of including something about me and thereby making m ...

In the next issue ofThe Corsair, Kierkegaard was named by his real name for the first time. This was in an article titled “The N ...

recalling episodes from the traumatic times when the boys at the Borgerdyd School taunted him for his unusual attire, calling hi ...

portraits of the impossible magister with the appropriate accoutrements: first, as a bent-over little fellow spraddled across a ...

of literature and permit ourselves to express the hope that the book will sell many copies and have many readers.” This mention ...

bearing; unexcelled in every respect; the play of colors on the stem is partic- ularly fine.” Even thoughThe Corsairsporadically ...

a bit off the mark when he more than implied that thePostscript—with its swarm of chapters, sections, divisions, subdivisions, i ...

in the book about Hans Christian Andersen; now, on the other hand, when things are going better for philosophy, Kierkegaard is w ...

Nor were many other people tempted to do so, either. For example J. F. Giødwad, the legally responsible editor ofFædrelandet, ha ...

February. In a journal entry, undated but presumably from March or April 1846, he wrote: “I do not readThe Corsair. I would not ...

ing down on him—down, in fact, at his trousers to see if they really were as uneven asThe Corsairhad depicted. And so everyone c ...

Kierkegaard was at his wits’ end, and this becomes clear when we inspect the large number of unpublished attacks and rejoinders— ...

the sword and a good sound drubbing and much other unpleasantness, but all the nasty plans stayed in his writing desk. In that s ...

highly than common literary decency. Kierkegaard continues: “The confi- dant went away. And then the little man put on a quilted ...

thing,” as he himself put it. Kierkegaard, incidentally, viewed this ashis personal victory. Kierkegaard’s defeat consisted of h ...

production in order to hinder every sort of direct approach—at a time when, precisely by having taken ownership of all the pseud ...

there can be no doubt that I am absolutely well-fitted, and that I would bear a great responsibility were I to refuse a task of ...