Soren Kierkegaard

take money for his instruction, and with him in mind Kierkegaard described his royalties a number of times as “rather Socratic.” ...

uted to literary rowdies are quite considerable. Nowadays, the more con- temptible a writer is, the more he makes.” Or, again, f ...

become ten people—now that would be something in Denmark. Then there would be the requisite variety, one author today, another t ...

Kierkegaard’s finances cannot be examined in detail because there are too many blank spots and black holes in the surviving reco ...

we leaf through the packet of neat little coupons, with their elegant pen flourishes, and learn that on October 26, 1850, he—as ...

putting his mouth where his money was, and both seem to have been put to good use: “Without extravagance I would never have been ...

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The Corsair, issue no. 285, Friday, March 6, 1846: “There are moments when one’s ideas become confused and one thinks that Nico ...

Peder Ludvig Møller. “Not much is known about his private life; his unsympathetic personality kept most people at a suitable di ...

Meïr Aron Gold- schmidt. Goldschmidt belonged to the generation of younger authors and intellectuals for whom Either/Or had bee ...

Strøget was called “the Route” in those days, and this was where one went to see and be seen, to greet one’s friends enthusiast ...

eateries had been modernized in accordance with foreign models and were now called “confectioneries” or “tearooms,” with exotic ...

Jens Finsen Giødwad. “I call Giødwad my personal friend, and during the last three or four years I have spoken with him every s ...

Berlingske politiske and Avertissements-Tidende, Friday morning, December 20, 1850. To avoid inundating readers in a sea of mis ...

Rasmus Nielsen. Although Kierkegaard did not want any disciples, he found it appropriate to initiate one person into his work a ...

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1848 Extravagance in the Service of the Idea “Then an apartment at the corner of Tornebuskegade became vacant, an apartment I ha ...

on closer inspection, it is an even more definite misdescription, inasmuch as no person, of course, no matter how thin he tries ...

beyond this lay a pantry. The apartment’s “retreat ”(in plain English, the privy) was located near the back stairs, next to the ...