Soren Kierkegaard

life is absolutely without significance anyway, it just isn’t right to suffer as I suffer and simply do nothing. But here is the ...

and when Vigilius Haufniensis peers into a physician’s office, he has in his eye a splinter from a troll’s magic mirror that cap ...

son. Then comes the catastrophe with Regine that changed his life and made him an author. And then, finally, Kierkegaard approac ...

gaard decided to speak than Bang came by, but even though this coinci- dence of events might seem to bear a perfect resemblance ...

monograph on anxiety makes it reasonable to look to his own problematic inner life as its primary source. Thanks to his own anal ...

is evidence of a colossal energy surplus, a sort of mental health despite every- thing, which is why the label of manic-depressi ...

It is well-known that art emerges from spiritual crises, just as the owl of Minerva only takes flight at close of day. “To be in ...

to Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and France. On his return to Copenhagen he continued his study of philosophy, primarily Hegel, a ...

member the smile with which Kierkegaard told me that he had replied to Adler that he was completely satisfied with the position ...

doctrine.” Fourth and finally, whether he would concede that he had made statements that were “offensive, repugnant, or extremel ...

The Book on Adler In paging through Kierkegaard’s copy of Adler’sSome Sermonsit becomes clear that despite some underlining and ...

On the basis of these volumes, particularlyStudies and Examples,hewrote his—first—book on the Adler phenomenon, between the midd ...

and instead considered breaking his manuscript up into “very short, separate parts,” publishing only the more theoretical portio ...

nate, so to speak,from withinand with as little bias as possible, granting the assumption that Adlerhadin fact had a revelation. ...

notorious preface had actually only been an “awakening,” by means of which he had been saved “in a wonderful fashion.” This he l ...

the four latest books, Adler is merely a genius, pure, unadulterated genius— and yet he apparently thinks he is still in agreeme ...

with Shakespeare, nor with stylists or carpetmakers; they are all (Plato fully as much as carpetmaker Hansen) without any compar ...

Kierkegaard provides a series of colorful descriptions of this sort of au- thor—“the premise author”—and gradually it becomes cl ...

Mynster was the first to note how Adler, from “some remnants of several philosophical studies and some loose theological reading ...

thereafter he grimaced, adding, “When I heard that, I thought the follow- ing—either, I thought, this is the man we need, the ch ...