Soren Kierkegaard

was drenched and had to stay in bed for the next couple of days .There was talk of calling Nutzhorn, the family physician, but P ...

Bringing Gloom to Rented Rooms “It is the path we all must take, over the Bridge of Sighs into Eternity.” This sentence stands a ...

get a glimpse of their situation by inspecting the surviving records of their participation in Holy Communion .The sexton of eac ...

deaths perhaps due to an infectious disease that leapt from body to body if one surrendered to life and to sensuality and forgot ...

emptiness by which I am dominated... .[I]n brief, I don’t even feel like writing what I have just written, nor do I feel like er ...

with life’s philosophical problems: “It is no great accomplishment for the least little puddle to become so clear that one can s ...

hoarse as the screech of a gull, or it fades away like a blessing on the lips of a mute.” Rarely has impoverishment of language ...

Martin that a “pretty head can very well sit on a bent body.” Indeed, he had had the good fortune to have “fallen a little bit i ...

five of these performances between 1835 and 1838 .Although other works by Mozart competed for Kierkegaard’s attention—he heardTh ...

ceived account of the situation, and it is not a fabrication from whole cloth. First and foremost, however, the above-mentioned ...

tion on the spines of the volumes bound in shirting was limited to the title and several horizontal gold lines .It was a restrai ...

bills, only sixteen are included in the auction catalog .Blicher’s poetry ap- pears on the bills from 1836, but is not in the ca ...

1838 “There Is an Indescribable Joy” Toward the end of 1837 Kierkegaard sat reading one of the folk songs with which he relaxed. ...

followers of Grundtvig—the brothers Johannes Ferdinand and Peter An- dreas Fenger, the brothers Martin and Frederik Hammerich, a ...

joy about one or another thing but is the full-throated shout of the soul ‘with tongue and mouth from the bottom of the heart’: ...

He was a practical man to the last. Else never did get to write about the harvest, however, and the harvest wasn’t good that yea ...

remedies were needed: “He prescribed leeches for the head, dough plasters for the calves. And Nutzhorn, who came back, doubled t ...

“The Great Earthquake” Condolence letters came pouring in. Peter Christian’s mother-in-law Nanna recalled “the splendid old man” ...

“Christianity recommended celibacy.” This seems deliberate—or is it merely a coincidence that a reflection on the renunciation o ...

these entries a salient place in the reader’s consciousness. They became in- troductory sentences, redolent with fateful signifi ...