Soren Kierkegaard

1849 Dedications and a Rebuff Kierkegaard’s relation to the literary scene was in fact not nearly as unequiv- ocal as he liked t ...

well understand; I did not at all think that you harbored kindly thoughts about me—but now I see you do! God bless you for it! T ...

Before she continued on to England, from which she journeyed further to America, the popular authoress tried to arrange a meetin ...

Christian Dogmaticsreached beyond the narrow circle of specialists in the field, and although the first printing had been larger ...

I wager it’s the latter.” Kierkegaard felt pushed aside, rejected, and humili- ated, so there was a certain predictability to hi ...

start: a real, actual life, a very real, actual life in us; one must not relate to Christianity via the imagination. Good. But n ...

after itself, and so forth—this is precisely what Christianity regards as a sign of health.” Martensen, whoimagined himselfhealt ...

mind had been overwhelmed by Søren Kierkegaard.” Indeed, Nielsen was so much under the influence that in his “intoxication he di ...

to make use of the Pauline opposition between sin and grace, which most people are notmature enough to appropriate. Rather, hefe ...

during a carriage ride to Hirschholm when he began to entertain the idea of having a disciple, perhaps even a confidant. And he ...

mentation was the source of some glee in Kierkegaard’sPrefaces, where a certain “Mr. B. B.” (in the manuscript Kierkegaard had o ...

Gospels and Modern Consciousness, a 530-page clunker of a book, plodded heavily into the literary world on May 19, 1849, the sam ...

walks. Kierkegaard had been there, but had had to stand there, watching the grass grow. And if Nielsen didnotwant the subjects t ...

had become a part ofthatrelationship, it was almost impossible to get him or her out of it again. The same thing had indeed happ ...

sides. That was an observation made in haste....No,nowIhave quite a different understanding of what is going on. Despair is the ...

the reasonable thing was to do practically nothing at all. So in September, when Nielsen complained that illness compelled him t ...

andthustheheartofherreportcard,Copenhagen:“TheDaneofCopenha- gen, or the Copenhagener, is not entirely as good-natured as Danes ...

sketch was done with great tenderness and truly catered to Andersen’s van- ity: He was a “wonder child” who had found “his origi ...

reflect itself in the Eternal and Unchangeable;... because in the course of his exhausting dialectical wanderings he says divine ...

He has surely noticed that his star is in decline at the university. It will certainly be droll for Rasmus Nielsen and those who ...