Soren Kierkegaard

stamping mill or in the repeated hammering of a coppersmith, and it is as though one’s soul has been deafened.” The Heiberg marr ...

The first thing he read was the great bildungsromanWilhelm Meister, which he called “masterly” because of “the well-rounded Gove ...

tion was better in the middle of the hierarchy, which was populated by average intellectual types, historians and natural scient ...

commonplace level.” A Faust who no longer despairs over his doubt is not Faust but a heretical convert, a renegade who imagines ...

faithfully repeats what all other licentiats and scholarly confirmands have already said.” The bitter tone might seem unprovoked ...

and openness. When they first met one morning at the Heibergs’ hotel, Martensen was received with great friendliness, and soon a ...

dissertation for the licentiat degree,The Autonomy of Human Self-Conscious- ness in Contemporary Dogmatic Theology. On April 21, ...

managed to get his foot in the door of virtually every significant theological and philosophical personage. And with his particu ...

message: “Here is the really old soap-cellar, where the really old soap-cellar people live.” An aggressive competitor in the nex ...

Mr. Ole Wadt, active military councillor and formerly a writing teacher A fly, who for many years was clever enough to winter wi ...

omnibus dubitandum est” (everything is to be doubted) fares worst, and in von Jumping-Jack’s mouth it becomes, with a Freudian s ...

like Martensen he proclaims that he himself has gone beyond Hegel: “I cannot yet say just where I have got to, but I have gone b ...

Ole Wadt, von Jumping-Jack, and Willibald want to give the learned soci- ety an entirely new name, they only succeed in deciding ...

found Møller reclining on a sofa, covered with a blanket, puffing away full steam on a long pipe, full of tobacco. Student Niels ...

remarks on a number of loose slips of paper and tucked them into his own copy of the dissertation. In the middle of the whole af ...

very little during his lifetime; he did not even succeed in finishing theTale of a Danish University Student. Before his death h ...

traveled, yet always remembered in the Danish summer”—the enthusiasm of my youth; the mighty trumpet of my awakening; the desire ...

about which Sibbern would later sigh: “In vielen Worten wenige Klarheit” [German: “many words, little clarity”]. Although it see ...

tem of thought “in which all concepts are produced out of nothing by means of an immanent development.” And later in the essay, ...

tion is a more serious matter, because in this case affectation is on its way to becoming a person’s second nature. The individu ...