Soren Kierkegaard

one of Mynster’s sermons aloud, thereby demonstrating that “edification is something quite different from a possible interest mo ...

and weak it was frightful....Then I became really sick.” One of those in the Citadel Church that Sunday was Peter Christian Zahl ...

Christian Discoursesfrom 1848, which were not what I had wanted, but I read them—and how can I ever thank you enough! I found in ...

field of vision [and] delight the soulwith your mastery of language and ideas— and that the things you proclaim are not really n ...

would be happy to send him a copy. She had recently read several pages of Kierkegaard’s “The Cares of Lowliness,” which, in her, ...

There were others who never took the opportunity to contact Kierke- gaard and had to make do with noting their gratitude in thei ...

A Dedication* *) Because of circumstances, the name in this dedication cannot / yet be added; but even so, it must nonetheless / ...

Kierkegaard’s mood was not improved when he learned—“quite by acci- dent”—that the same review had been reprinted a couple of da ...

higher than the indirect variety, a view that Kierkegaard—very directly— opposed, invoking an almost Nietzschean authority: “Ind ...

have wanted, is the same thing I want, except that I want it in a major key, something that can be explained by the difference b ...

1852 “She Came Walking as if from the Lime Kiln” In Copenhagen, moves from one apartment to another generally took place on the ...

other. This was a sort of guilty guilelessness that had its own internal set of rules, sometimes bordering on ritual and always ...

morningsheencounteredmeonthepathbythelakethathadnowbecome myusualroute.AndthenextdayIalsowentmycustomaryway.Shewasn’t there.Stil ...

preachedattheCitadelChurchayearearlier.“Thefirstreligiousimpression she had of me is bound up with this text, and it is a text o ...

lose themselves, breezing along in their shared gaze, “she suddenly averted hereyes.”Kierkegaardwonderedatthisbuttheexplanationc ...

about to go. There was something strange about this encounter, so indis- creet. As she passed by me and turned to go through the ...

Kierkegaard rented three rooms on thebelle e ́tagefrom a Mrs. Borries, who hadatfirstbeenratherskepticalaboutrentingtohimbecause ...

hour to the next, from hour to hour. If I were to lay awake all night long, listening every quarter-hour, all I would get to kno ...

1853 A Life in the Underworld “I have read what I must call the most monstrous of all the polemics that have ever been written a ...

allusions,”itcrackledwithpolemicsdirectedatvariousaspectsofecclesiasti- cal and cultural life in Copenhagen. Martensen himself w ...