Soren Kierkegaard

plete with a Bible and collections of sermons, but just as he is provided with the necessary paraphernalia, everything disappear ...

suddenly extinguished. This, the librarian explains, is because the master of the house is an extraordinarily punctilious man wh ...

subsequent identification) Rasmus Nielsen himself. In any case, Martensen is extremely eager to enter “into the heavenly Jerusal ...

for his assistance. But as I was on my knees and about to thank him, he seized me in his powerful hands, took a glistening basin ...

Christianity is and remains dead (only a semblance of life and something imaginary), that not even he himself could become a Chr ...

must necessarily result in “the most dishonorable sort of bankruptcy for a professor and a member of theFaculty of Philosophy.” ...

weeks in the latter part of the summer. In his subsequent letter, dated July 22, Martensen inquired about developments with resp ...

fested with the disease. The next day the Health Commission was con- vened, and reporting centers were established at various pl ...

marks....Thecoffins were flat, made out of six blackened boards, and were so poorly constructed that the lid of one came off whe ...

those of the socialist thinkers that we could be tempted to believe that he had secretly read them, though such a suspicion woul ...

it.... I open up the N. T. and I read, ‘If you wish to be perfect, then sell all your goods and give it to the poor and come and ...

This journal entry is from 1849 and is one of the first in which Kierke- gaard has begun to jack up the ideological price. That ...

something to a sick child—and then a couple of stronger children come along and grab it.” Kierkegaard also had a pronounced feel ...

in his rabid criticisms of the clergy’s “livings.” When he wrote that it is precisely the “main thrust of the Gospel, that the G ...

tempted to prove that the innermost essence of existence is a blind, ungov- ernable will-to-life, or instinct, which governs a h ...

mained unmarried, though not alone, for his life was lived in the company of a long series of poodles, all named Atman, the Indi ...

ian philosophy and of the whole of professorial philosophy.” So much did Kierkegaard fall head over heels in love with the word— ...

but had also written of some of the most important contemporary philoso- phers in a manner that the committee found “extremely i ...

countryside surrounding Frankfurt, where he had lived since 1833; he took cold baths; and he led a life as regular and punctual ...

caricatured and ridiculed by the whole mob, from the simple people to the aristocrats; all in order to explode illusions....ButA ...