Soren Kierkegaard

“I am aJanus bifrons[Latin: ‘two-faced Janus’]: With one face I laugh, with the other I weep,” Kierkegaard noted on a slip of pa ...

use to conceal their thoughts from the lay public and tell me the simple meaning of these things in good, plain Danish. But hurr ...

acquired the sure grasp provided by experience, and ideas rushed in on him from every quarter, like a meteor shower: “One though ...

These verbal reflections do not conform to the usual notion of a journal as a repository for confidences or intimate narratives; ...

some of his romantic models—for example, super-stylists like Jean Paul, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and G. C. Lichtenberg—Kierkegaard had i ...

Kierkegaard would also go back to his journal entries in order to refine them, rework them, or merely to take joy in re-encounte ...

manuscript was sent to the printer, and in a good many cases when the printer was finished setting type, the manuscript disappea ...

entry, “this is my consolation: No one will be able to find in my papers one single bit of information about what has really fil ...

1837 Storm and Stress? Kierkegaard’s Faustian period was very costly, both existentially and finan- cially .During these years, ...

Vimmelskaftet; 235 to various tearooms and cafe ́s; and 44 to M .C .Freys, a tobacconist on Østergade; plus various lesser sums ...

he would spend several intense hours with his mistress, the Countess Dan- nemand, while his lawfully wedded wife and the people ...

edly between his legs and leave .Other theorists, on the other hand, believe that Kierkegaard had managed to do the deed, but th ...

cause he has a sort of wholesomeness that testifies in his favor,” and his “words were therefore more humorous than lewd.” It is ...

lovely maiden and had awakened her sexual desire .On the page to which Kierkegaard refers (the bottom of page 15), she had just ...

Assuming he doesn’t already have one, this gives a person every possibility of acquiring an unsound mind in a reasonably sound b ...

of consciousness takes its cues, and he used a theological term to explain the situation: “predestined, as it were.” At the same ...

of these high-intensity sketches of the individual’s heroic battle against temptation—with temptation usually the victor, thus c ...

the middle of an edifying discourse whose title,For Self-Examination, thus might be said to be well-chosen in a more than theolo ...

father,” and, he added, “Søren was surely touched not a little by this.” Maria quite literally brought an entirely new tone to t ...

About the time of the wedding, a party had been arranged at the home of the merchant Kierkegaard’s cousin, M .A .Kierkegaard, a ...