Soren Kierkegaard

in the end makes this earnestness another name for the tacit acceptance of Kierkegaard’s fictions and dubious ploys. Therefore i ...

Kierkegaard the copyist answers these questions in an extremely original way in the third chapter ofThe Point of View, which he ...

aboutthe religious. The lines almost begin to hover above the page, as if they had been written with a “winged pen”—indeed, perh ...

and was therefore unable to speak authoritatively concerning their inner- most meaning. Unable to make sense of his own experien ...

the other hand, it is not entirely untrue, either, because from the very begin- ning I have been aware that I was being brought ...

When the inner “torment and misery” was exhibited “in print,” the repen- tant “I” thus becameinteresting, which caused the relig ...

understand him poetically or to poetize him. But nothing more than... this apology, because in other respects I have poetically ...

covers that a certain coherence can be seen among the works....Itisour quite definite opinion not merely that it is not entirely ...

15 and started on NB 5 that same day; by July 16 it was filled with writing and put aside in favor of NB 6, which was replaced o ...

genre of the writings, ”alluding in this connection to the tactics he had to adopt in publishing thePostscript: “I realized at o ...

trayed as possessing characteristics typical of social classes far beneath Kier- kegaard’s own, as, for example, when he describ ...

libidinous extroversion as a trait typical of the romantic ironist: “Now he is on the way to the monastery, and along the way vi ...

eternalnolens volens[Latin: “will one or won’t one”]. But then, indeed, the entry continues: “This might not have made such a pr ...

Jesus Christ.’ ” This is not a very pleasant entry, and what makes it especially sinister is the unreserved approval with which ...

must continually come closer and closer to the doctrine of the forgiveness of sins,” he wrote on one of the great many loose scr ...

“The person who has truly experienced and continues to experience belief in the forgiveness of his sins has indeed become anothe ...

sweep him away: “This is actually how I am treated in Copenhagen. I am regarded as a kind of Englishman, a half-mad eccentric, w ...

Pro dii immortales. By the immortal gods! It is amazing that Kierkegaard evendeignsto make a fuss about what a random man has sa ...

mother and celebrated her. And that was annoying, inasmuch as the coterie is a pillar of society. And now his wife—and for safet ...

that they knew Kierkegaard existed, despite the fact that Johan Ludvig had a number of Kierkegaard’s works, includingEither/Or,R ...