Soren Kierkegaard

schla ̈ger’s sister, the pretty Sophie, wrinkled up her nose at Mynster’s poeti- cal debut, but then she was known to be virtual ...

had changed direction and this was in fact the calm before the storm. And Mynster remembered it so vividly that the pages themse ...

eat at Mynster’s table, so now he had no one to talk to. “I found that the total solitude, which in a normal day was only interr ...

of the fountain down in the square. In the mornings he could see dawn breakoverthenarrowroofsofNytorv,acrossthesquare.Perhapsthe ...

this capacity he had learned that there was “no tribe of people more difficult to govern than professors; they are all learned m ...

confessor and court and castle pastor in 1828, and that he would fill the post of bishop of Zealand and primate of the Danish St ...

gaard’sEdifying Discourseswith great interest. They would be even better if they were not marked by so much dialectical web-spin ...

ous person. That is why he wants me out in the country.” Kierkegaard went on to explain that it was of course true that somewher ...

encountered a similar combination of a fine, polished, social tone and an unctuous priestliness.” Rasmus Nielsen shared Clausen’ ...

in which this very same “Superintendent” (the primate of the Danish Church) is first grilled over a slow fire and then served in ...

norm for preaching in Denmark. Hence, this artistic distance—even in the clumsiest of sermons.” To put it mildly, Kierkegaard’s ...

fraught with an almost shrill radicality: “Being a Christian is neither more nor less, absolutely neither more nor less, than be ...

Thus, martyrdom would be a nondialectical situation. Unlike dialectics, death is in fact irreversible. Two Ethical-Religious Ess ...

And H. H. was right about that. The topics he has decided to treat are indisputably so specialized that even among theologians t ...

whether, in his love for the human race, Christ could be permitted to sacri- fice his life, thereby inflicting on the human race ...

been reversed: The problem is now the sacrificed person’s right to permit himself to be sacrificed and not, as earlier, the sacr ...

And that was the end of the twelve short lines the reviewer had set aside forthatbook. If he had written in his own name, Kierke ...

excuse for the way in which I use ‘I’ in these lectures....Tomywayof thinking it is my weakness and imperfection... that I do no ...

pseudonymous,becausemypersonalitydoesnotmeasureuptoit.”Regard- less of where one situates Kierkegaard along this stretch of the ...

But the point here is not the lack of proportion between Kierkegaard’s worried thoughts and the way things actually were in the ...