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Papers and Journals
One of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, Søren Kierkegaard (1814-55) often expressed himself through pseudonyms and disguises. Taken from his personal writings, these private reflections reveal the development of his own thought and personality, from his time as a young student to the deep later internal conflict that formed the basis for his masterpiece of
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Paperback, 704 pages
Published
March 7th 1996
by Penguin Classics
(first published January 1st 1996)
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In his short life Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1814-1855) wrote over seven thousand pages of papers and journal entries, enough writing to fill an entire bookshelf. This Penguin collection organizes Kierkegaard’s journals into eight major phases of the philosopher’s life, from Kierkegaard’s early 20s to the last years of his life before he collapsed on the street at age 43. There is great insight and wisdom here. There is also wry humor and penetrating observations on 19th century Europ ...more
Ah, fuck you Søren Kierkegaard, you insufferable shithead, you note-jotting, soul-waxing, lip-quivering, God-fingering, three-sixty-viewing, meaning-mushy, mystery-spelunking, Hegel-Bagel-bargling, shadow-boxing, love-working, knight of faith-touting, muffin-coiffed syncretic douchebag.
Kierkegaard is a philosopher, a theologian, the Father of Existentialism, a literary critic, a humorist, a psychlogist, and a poet. This book provides, quite persuasively, a comprehensive description of the Kierkegaard complex. From it, one learns about a life worthy of a philosopher and about a philosophy worthy of living. This book does not disappoint if you wish to learn more about the puzzling and intriguing episodes in Kierkegaard's life. His philosophical point of view is enightening; this
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"Every flower in my heart becomes an ice fern." (p.110)
In Kierkegaard's Journals readers get a glimpse into the high degree of secular existence that a genius must maintain in order to keep his body (and, most importantly, his spirit) away from those petty influences that characterize a spiritless, mass-market society. He also writes about his father who passed away when he was a young man, his love interests, Christianity (which is a given when you read Kierkegaard), his angels and demons, and ...more
In Kierkegaard's Journals readers get a glimpse into the high degree of secular existence that a genius must maintain in order to keep his body (and, most importantly, his spirit) away from those petty influences that characterize a spiritless, mass-market society. He also writes about his father who passed away when he was a young man, his love interests, Christianity (which is a given when you read Kierkegaard), his angels and demons, and ...more
This handy one-volume edition of entries from Kierkegaard's journals and papers shows a more personal side of Kierkegaard. One sees the struggles, sorrows, and joys that follow Magister Soren across his life -- it's a side of him that does not always come across in the published works.
Absolutely the most magnificent Kierkegaard anthology out there. A must read, over and over again!
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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticised both the Hegelianism of his time and what he saw as the empty formalities of the Church of Denmark. Much of his work deals with religious themes such as faith in God, the institution of the Christian Church, Christian ethics and theology, and the emotions and feelings of individua
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“What to me also seems most striking in this respect is how the great poetic geniuses (an Ossian, a Homer) are presented as blind. Naturally it doesn't matter to me whether they really were blind; the point is people have imagined them so, as if to indicate that what they saw when they sang of the beauty of nature appeared not to the external eye but to an inner intuition. How remarkable that one of the writers on bees - yes, the best of them - was blind from early youth; it's as if to show that here, where you would have thought external observation so important, he had found that point and from it was then able by purely mental activity to infer back to all particulars and reconstruct them in analogy with nature.”
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