Soren Kierkegaard

wide and locked arm in arm, that headed for Christiansborg Castle where the deputation, with Hvidt as its spokesman, had gone in ...

Hegel roll over in his grave: “In the end, all of world history becomes nonsense. Action is completely abolished....Thecastle in ...

events of recent months that overturned everything,” and in this context he emphasized the following: “During this catastrophe I ...

he could inquire about his heavenly mission under cover of darkness, and seen with Kierkegaard’s eyes, Nicodemus was another nam ...

“You Are Expecting a Tyrant, While I Am Expecting a Martyr” The idea of a martyr (as opposed to a tyrant) comes up in Kierkegaar ...

entlypolitical movement isat roota repressed need for religion. Here, as earlier, the more or less unspoken precondition for the ...

violence, the sophistry of the tangible)—but there will be nothing reminis- cent of Socrates.” If this was a prophetic passage, ...

In his memoirs, when Martensen looked back upon the events of 1848, he could not but agree with a remark he attributed to one of ...

liberalism has the upper hand at present, it is not difficult to see that socialism has the future on its side.” Martensen—who c ...

Kierkegaard believed that he himself was a part of this process, and he con- tinued his attack in a determined manner: “Here in ...

mercifulness be practiced or that the help is the help of mercifulness. ‘Raise money for us, provide hospitals for us. That’s wh ...

there must be no difference between one person and another; we should all be brothers and sisters, owning everything in common; ...

The failure of death to arrive in 1847 was an unexpected hitch in his calculations, and in more ways than one: Of the 31,355 rix ...

when, in the next sentence, Søren Aabye wrote “that” instead of “whether”: “Therefore, let me know that you are satisfied by ret ...

Money in Books Surviving beyond his thirty-fourth birthday meant there would be a new deadline (if we may call it that) in Kierk ...

printing, which would enable him to reduce the retail price by at least a rixdollar. Luno wanted 948 rixdollars and 60 shillings ...

sell out in Kierkegaard’s lifetime, and a third edition was not necessary until 1865. Nonetheless, Kierkegaard earned more money ...

following sworn statement on May 11,1845: “I swear on my life that Mr. Magister S. A. Kierkegaard has the right to require of me ...

when Reitzel took possession of all the remaining unsold copies. Kierke- gaard thus earned a gross of 4,874 rixdollars on the te ...

zel’s. On May 29, 1845, he published these discourses under the titleEigh- teen Edifying Discourses. The financial records show ...