Soren Kierkegaard

much offense as this Lindberg,” wrote the aging Bishop Mynster, who had witnessed an ungodly number of troublemakers during his ...

because that concern was without doubt a fundamental and persistent mo- tive for merchant Kierkegaard’s religious moves. To befo ...

walk out to the customs office with the younger brother, who expressed hisdisapprovalofPeterChristian’sfascinationwithGrundtvigi ...

head,” who could “push a matter to its logical conclusion.” Indeed, Lind- bergwas“amanofsomanyremarkable talents”that“asanallyhe ...

stand behind a counter in a shop,” his friend Peter Munthe Bruun wrote angrily, adding that the family simply treated him like a ...

School for Peter Christian. When he arrived she was calmer, though she soon became delirious again, and the attending physicians ...

almostsaidthatnothinggivesmejoybutisn’tittruethatIhavemyhusband and my children and I hope that time will also heal this wound s ...

at random. The omens were favorable, but when he presented himself for ordination on March 6, he felt himself utterly unworthy o ...

he was now in Providence with a merchant named James C. Richmond, who had attempted, thus far without success, to find him a pos ...

When the brigEnvoyreached its destination there was no one to receive the goods, however. It was as though Niels Andreas had dis ...

Episcopal priest. The letter was dated October 14, 1833, and was addressed to “Mrs. Anna Kierkegaard,” who was thus the recipien ...

symbolism,rainpoureddownalmostwithoutinterruptionfortwomonths. Peter Christian could not decide whether to apply for a vacant po ...

delicacy. Peter Christian’s diary contains a retrospective consideration of the period after the burial: “My mood became increas ...

1835 The Still Voices of the Dead Apparently the family tragedies that periodically plunged Peter Christian into complete inacti ...

has repeatedly confirmed that she never in her life (and she had had no little experience) had seen a human being so deeply dist ...

flyvende Post[commonly known asFlyveposten, published by J. L. Heiberg, 1827–37; not to be confused withFlyve-Posten, an unrelat ...

master thief feels that he is not understood by his contemporaries, and he is so “displeased with the existing order” that he wa ...

Amid surroundings of natural beauty and far from the temptations of the big city, the unfocused university student was supposed ...

“Naturally, every person wants to be active in the world in accordance with his abilities, but this in turn implies that he want ...

afternoon during the peak of the season at the Deer Park: People rush past one another, hooting and shouting, laughing and makin ...