Soren Kierkegaard

study the lives of mollusks, while the university student leaned back roman- tically in the stern of the boat, enjoying “the cla ...

made visible, a sort of Job story in whichTibirke Churchin particular plays the principal role.” Thus in itself the landscape wa ...

mentioned case, but also in the more general sense of the associations that dogged the heels of the wandering student and imprin ...

But the most striking thing is that time and again one does not come across what one might normally expect of an entry in a trav ...

how things actually seemed to me. On the other hand, now, when I try to get a clear look at my life, it seems otherwise to me.” ...

Thus, little by little, the existential emotion at the beginning of the entry is replaced by a soft-focus retrospective view of ...

1836 “A Somersault into the Siberia of Freedom of the Press” After the French Revolution and the unrest that followed in its tra ...

political reforms. But, finally, as a part of his campaign to stamp out what he called “impudent writing” the king issued a decr ...

the daily press Ostermann had the future on his side. Two weeks later, however, he had Kierkegaard against him. Kierkegaard also ...

of ‘still life’ in which people engaged in aesthetic pursuits, playing at ‘old Denmark’ and ‘grand old flag.’ ” Lehmann was no e ...

“B” was apparently still untaken at the time, so Kierkegaard was permit- ted to use it. Beginning with the very choice of his ti ...

Evidently it did not occur to Kierkegaard that such a confusion was only possible because Kierkegaard had managed to copy Heiber ...

In the first article, where he chattily explains the idea behind his journal, we can clearly sense that he has Kierkegaard in hi ...

this with a judicious selection of quotations from his own articles: “I said: chea pbeer. I said: moral creamed kale. I said: di ...

This successful literary debut meant that Kierkegaard would be admitted to the charmed circle of the Heiberg family. Johan Ludvi ...

For older people, an invitation to the Heiberg family home at number 3 Brogade in the Christianshavn section of the city was an ...

ent at an evening gathering on June 4, 1836, on the occasion of the Heiberg couple’s departure for a journey abroad. (After stop ...

Heiberg’s insistence upon the necessity ofBildungwas first and foremost a programmatic declaration of a philosophy of which the ...

the triumph of externality in the theater—Goethe had resigned his post as director of the Weimar Theater when adogwas permitted ...

embedded: “In the formation of taste it is important that we pay attention not merely to the material ‘what,’ but even more to t ...