Soren Kierkegaard

(Romina) #1

  • Poul Martin Møller

  • “Sketches of Moral Nature”—Affectation and Self-Deception


  • “Backstage Practice”



  • Storm and Stress?

  • Maria

  • Bringing Gloom to Rented Rooms

  • “Dear Emil!! You, My Friend, the Only One”


  • Reading Binge



  • “There Is an Indescribable Joy”

  • Death of a Merchant

  • “The Great Earthquake”


  • From the Papers of One Still Living



  • The Rich Young Man

  • The Translator

  • “My Reading for the Examinations Is the Longest Parenthesis”


  • A Dandy on a Pilgrimage



  • Regine—in Memoriam

  • Miss O.

  • From the Papers of One Already Dead

  • The Time of Terrors


  • “She Chooses the Shriek, I Choose the Pain”




  • On the Concept of Irony



  • Stark Naked in Berlin

  • “The Aesthetic Is Above All My Element”

  • The Incidental Tourist





  • Either/Or

  • “A Monster of a Book”

  • Literary Exile

  • Spiritual Eroticism

  • Regine’s Nod

  • Berlin Again

  • Repetition

  • “Long Live the Post Horn!”

  • To Become Oneself Again Is to Become Someone Else

  • Reality Intervenes

  • 1:50

  • The Retracted Text

  • Fear and Trembling

  • Abraham and the Knife: Agnete and Farinelli

  • “A Crevice through Which the Infinite Peeped Out”





  • The Concept of Anxiety

  • Captivating Anxiety—Pages from a Seducer’s Textbook

  • The Seduction’s Diary

  • Oh, to Write a Preface

  • Reviews

  • Israel Levin

  • “Come Over and See Me for a Bit”


    • the Happy, the Good To Have Faith Is Always to Expect the Joyous,





  • “Big Enough to Be a Major City”

  • “I Came Close to Dancing with Them”

  • “People Bath”

  • “Yes, of Course, I Am an Aristocrat—”

  • “I Think Grundtvig Is Nonsense”

  • Kierkegaard in Church

  • “People Think I’m a Hack Writer”

  • Stages on Life’s Way

  • The Inserted Passages

  • Writing Samples

  • Exit Heiberg

  • Postscript: Kierkegaard

    • Part Three



  • Victor Eremita’s Admirers

  • The Corsair—“A Devil of a Paper”

  • Comic Composition and Goldschmidt’s Flashy Jacket

  • “I Am a Jew. What Am I Doing among You?”

  • Malice in a Macintosh: Peder Ludvig Møller

  • “A Visit to Sorø”

  • “Would Only That I Might Soon Appear inThe Corsair”

  • The Corsair’sSalvo

  • Møller’s Postscript to Kierkegaard’sPostscript

  • Admiration and Envy: When One Word Leads to Another

  • The Squint-Eyed Hunchback

  • The Great Reversal

  • “The School of Abuse”

  • The Neighbors across the Way

  • “S. Kjerkegaard and His Reviewers”

  • “This Sweat-Soaked, Stifling Cloak of Mush That Is the Body”

  • The Bull of Phalaris

  • “What Does the Physician Really Know?”

  • “For I Have Loved My Melancholia”

  • Adolph Peter Adler

  • The Book on Adler

  • “Confusion-Making of the Highest Order”

  • Saint Paul and Carpetmaker Hansen

  • Exaltation: 7–14–21; 7–14–21; 7–14–21

  • “The Sensual Pleasure of Productivity”

  • Graphomania

  • Rad. Valerianæ



    • Your Brain Beating?” “Perhaps You Would Also Like Me to Listen to



  • The Press: “The Government’s Filth Machine”

  • To Travel Is to Write—and Vice Versa

  • “The Air Bath”

  • Either and Or

  • Regine Schlegel

  • “A People’s Government Is the True Image of Hell”

  • “This Is the Idea of the Religious”

  • “100,000 Rumbling Nonhumans”

    • and I Will Be the Manhandled Victim” “Perhaps the Alarm Will Be Sounded in the Camp



  • “You Are Expecting a Tyrant, While I Am Expecting a Martyr”

  • God Hates Pyramids

  • Liberty, Equality, and Mercy

  • From the Financial Papers of One Still Living

  • Money in Books

  • “Year after Year, at My Own Expense”

    • Part Four



  • Extravagance in the Service of the Idea

  • “Copenhagen Is a Very Filthy Town”

  • The Sickness unto Death

  • “To Poetize God into Something a Bit Different”

  • “The Poetry of Eternity”

  • To Publish or Not to Publish

  • The Point of View for My Work as an Author

  • “What Hasn’t This Pen Been Capable of...?”

  • “But Then, of Course, I Cannot Say ‘I’ ”

  • In Charge of His Own Posthumous Reputation

  • “My Father Died—Then I Got Another Father in His Place”

  • “I Am Regarded as a Kind of Englishman, a Half-Mad Eccentric”





  • Dedications and a Rebuff

  • Martensen’sDogmatics

  • A Sunday in the Athenæum

  • Rasmus Nielsen

  • Fredrika Bremer’s Report Card

  • Kierkegaard’s Dream

  • The Sealed Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Schlegel

  • “Come Again Another Time”

  • Jakob Peter Mynster

  • “When I Look at Mynster—”

  • Two Ethical-Religious Essays

  • The Will to Powerlessness

  • The Ventriloquist Who Said “I”

  • The Poet of Martyrdom: The Martyrdom of the Poet


  • “Dr. Exstaticus”



  • Eight Ways Not to Say Good-Bye

  • Moving Days

  • Practice in Christianity

  • “Blasphemous Toying with What Is Holy”

  • The Idiot God—and His Times

  • The Voices of the Scandalized


  • “And Why, Then, This Concealment?”



  • “That Line about Goldschmidt Was Fateful”

  • Kierkegaard in the Citadel Church

  • Fan Mail

  • The Dedication to Regine


  • A Theological Village Idiot



  • “She Came Walking as if from the Lime Kiln”


  • The Final Apartment



  • A Life in the Underworld

  • Nielsen: A Demonic Scoundrel

  • “One Day I Saw the Corpse Bus Come”

  • “The Prices Must Be Jacked Up in the Salon”

  • S. A. versus A. S.

  • “Christianity Is the Invention of Satan”

    • Part Five



  • The Death of a Witness to the Truth

  • “—That Is How a Witness to the Truth is Buried!”

  • “To Bring About a Catastrophe”

  • “A Devil of a Witness to the Truth”





  • “My Opponent Is a Glob of Snot”

  • Virginie and Regine—to Lose What Is Most Precious

  • “Quite Simply: I Want Honesty”

  • “Therefore, Take the Pseudonymity Away”

  • The Moment

  • “Then That Poet Suddenly Transformed Himself”

  • Out with Inwardness!

    • in Long Robes!” “The Pastor—That Epitome of Nonsense Cloaked



  • The Death of God

  • Grundtvig’s Rejoinder

  • “Pastor P. Chr. Kierkegaard, Lic. Theol., My Brother”

  • “In a Theater, It Happened That”

  • “Come Listen, Brilliant Bastard Son”

  • “You Dine with the Swine”

  • Patient No.

  • Postmortem

  • A Little Corpse with Nowhere to Go

  • The Will, the Auctions, and a Psychopathic Missionary

  • The Papers No One Wanted

  • Peter Christian’s Misery

  • The Woman among the Graves

  • Illustration Credits

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index

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