Soren Kierkegaard

sion ofThe Point of View for My Work as an Author, he appended to it an “Accompanying Note” that informs us: “Even as a little c ...

that as soon as I heard this, I came to see you.” Kierkegaard himself was of theopinion thathisopening movehad beenquitesuccessf ...

one of these machines. In that way we would at least be spared a scandalous situation, because there is nothing scandalous when ...

it) “quite unrestrainedly” about Christ. And this is certainly not an under- statement. The text has representatives of the besp ...

abominable, or rather, an insane fantasy the likes of which has never been heard of before; never before has anyone seen this fo ...

you cannot endure contemporaneity, if you cannot endure seeing this in actuality, if you could not go out into the street—and se ...

tion, seeing as, after all, history has sort of gained some knowledge and has sort of heard so much to the effect that he had so ...

presented the ideal human state? Wouldn’t this then “scare him away from being a human being, so that it might end in suicide?” ...

nowIamoverhere[inJutland]andhavemissedyouquiteoften—especially lately. But then when I received the book and read some of it, it ...

Not only was it quite impressive to be compared to Luther, it was also flattering to have the comparison made by Rudelbach, and ...

ambivalence Kierkegaard went to extraordinary lengths to conceal, but it became obvious in a little postscript to his article: “ ...

“externality” has been abandoned and people have consigned “being a Christian to inwardness,” which means that “a universal ‘pai ...

impossible that we all can become martyrs. If we are all to become martyrs and be put to death, then who will put us to death?’” ...

criticizing inwardness as the hiding place of hypocrisy. This also had the effect of forcing him into a wide-ranging and sometim ...

1851 “That Line about Goldschmidt Was Fateful” Kierkegaard knew well that withPractice in Christianityhe had gone too far, and h ...

lion in all the low-life bars and dives, turn up in aristocratic society, standing there fussing with his cravat.” Once a knave, ...

entire person was rather close to worldliness....Butthis plain fact betrays the whole thing.” On May 2, 1851, following a good m ...

ter’s pending wedding. Mynster, who generally played hard to get when- ever Kierkegaard would broach the subject of future visit ...

Discourses, which Kierkegaard supposed he had read, butOn My Wor kas an Author. “Yes, there is a thread that runs through the wh ...

In a journal entry from June 29, 1855—“Some Historical Data concern- ing My Relation to Bishop Mynster”—Kierkegaard provides a c ...