Soren Kierkegaard

city stifles what is highest, it nonetheless also has its good side—it contains a continual corrective that hinders extravagance ...

in sum: “Oh, how vile to live in a tiny, little, silly country whose character consists only of want of character.” To be a free ...

began to grin and to carry on with all the impudence that is de rigueur here in this provincial town. What happens? When I had c ...

martyrdom of ridicule is the most unbearable because, as a “long-term mar- tyrdom,” it is just like “that slow death, being tram ...

was shorter than the other, and I could now see for myself that he was odd- looking. I instinctively stopped, was embarrassed, a ...

young theologian inThe Neighbors across the Way, Jens Christian Hostrup’s wild comedy, originally written for university student ...

other, we cast it into the water.” The suggestion generates great interest, so the next time he speaks Kirk continues in an edif ...

vived—on top of it all in a fund-raising performance for charity!—at the Royal Theater, where, however, the role of Søren Kirk h ...

it occur to Kierkegaard that in the days when he himself had been a theology student he had in fact writtenThe Battle between th ...

If his writings had not been reviewed, Kierkegaard to some extent had himself to thank for that. In May 1845, when he negotiated ...

intelligible, and no well-spiced Christmas cake is more full of raisins than the majority of his works are full of very popular ...

energy that if he himself were a pastor he would consign the humorist Johannes Climacus to Satan so that he, Christensen, might ...

when one wished to remain “at a distance of 100,000 miles—or, better, at the distance of the idea—from the moment.” The volume o ...

ginal, exposed. And as though curiously presaging the use of exactlythe words“witness to the truth” that would create a polemica ...

with perhaps ten times as much shrewdness as possessed by the shrewd— systematically carried out in the opposite direction. I al ...

backed” (Carl Brosbøll and Troels-Lund). In any case this back, subse- quently so world-famous, was not straight, and its irregu ...

entire person: “She did not love my well-formed nose, nor my fine eyes, nor my small feet—nor my clever head—she just loved me, ...

to reinterpret his physical weakness and discern a theological point. In 1847, he sighed that “viewed in animal categories, as a ...

in accordance with the rules of aesthetics.’ Now it goes without saying that a reviewer resembles a poet in every detail, except ...

melancholia onlyjust barelymanaged to squeeze for a few moments now and then. But “essentially” this was a life lived in an unse ...