Soren Kierkegaard

over-the-place production” and a “jumble.” Kierkegaard’s insistence on the random lengthof the books parallels the indeterminabl ...

indeed, unconditionally—most people will only be harmed by reading Ad- ler’s writings because he causes total confusion. But the ...

is not true, namely that he and the pseudonyms were roughly simultaneous, because he came afterwards, and that is very decisive. ...

ible urge to write. Thus he confided to his nephew Henrik Lund that “as soon as [I] have pen in hand on a blank sheet of paper, ...

metaphysical roots, which can be seen in the aura that hovers around the figures who are often singled out in descriptions of ep ...

attributable to the fact that he recognized some of his own psychosomatic abnormalities in Adler, but that, unlike Adler, he wou ...

asserting that a “bodily disturbance, or as it would now be called, an illness, had put the spirit into disorder and disarray.” ...

The “falling sickness” was regarded as belonging to a category that cov- ered leprosy and other abominations, including syphilis ...

Bang was not optimistic about the possibility of “removing the causes.” It was true that quacks offered a great many “arcane rem ...

1847 “Perhaps You Would Also Like Me to Listen to Your Brain Beating?” The 1840s were the first decade of steam power in Denmark ...

ink-splattering quill pen by the much more serviceable metal pen .The Danish metal pen was the invention of H .C .Thønnesen, a g ...

“Parisian Work-Machine for the Maintenance of Shoes and Clothing and for the Removal of Spots.” Similarly, a pharmacist only jus ...

oneself had nothing to do with the surrounding society or with the changes that were taking place .On the contrary, the close co ...

learned and half-learned, who have looked through a microscope .Then things will no longer be as they were in the past, when a p ...

ethical side of the human race will be treated statistically, as a matter of average numbers... .What do I need to know about th ...

to be convinced of it and has declared it to be the most remarkable thing he has heard—and the Pope as well.’ The piece could en ...

lives of peoples and individuals. People had stopped merely interpreting the world. They had begun to change it. Preeminent in c ...

The Press: “The Government’s Filth Machine” The collision withThe Corsairleft Kierkegaard with a terrific loathing for the daily ...

tion of privacy itself, is entirely incompatible with being mentioned all over the country in a newspaper.” The vignette itself ...

incoherent and anesthetized media proletariat that deifies everything easy and vile. This tendency is revealed when the voice of ...