Arts & Letters Daily search results for “kierkegaard” (19)
2020-06-23 | Being Kierkegaardian precludes any dutiful fealty to Kierkegaard himself. Unfortunately, a new book misses this point more »
2013-05-08 | Postmodern before postmodernism, existentialist before Sartre, ironic before irony was debased: Kierkegaard, rejected in his time, is a man for our time more »
2014-04-15 | An engagement as binding as marriage. Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen never married; nevertheless, theirs was one of the great literary loves more »
2016-10-06 | Hope amid cynicism, sickness, and death. Kierkegaard renounced worldly pleasures, like trips to the countryside and even marriage. But his vision wasn’t entirely pessimistic more »
2013-02-19 | Our future is measured by the books we intend to read. Kierkegaard understood the anxiety. As more becomes possible, he said, less becomes actual more »
2013-05-15 | What is loneliness? It's not solitude or what Kierkegaard called 'shut-upness.' It's an interior experience. And it can kill you more »
2019-05-04 | The afterlives of philosophers. Nietzsche’s reputation fell almost immediately into disrepute; Kierkegaard, on the other hand, became an inspiration for “mindfulness.” Why? more »
2020-05-02 | Kierkegaard saw himself as the “Socrates of Christendom,” but his theology requires some reframing: for one thing, his church was a library more »
2019-11-04 | Reading Kierkegaard can be dispiriting. He seems so dour, so tortured by inner turmoil. But he was, in some odd way, a happy writer more »
2014-03-24 | Stress is thought to be a bad thing. But there is vitality in anxiety. Kierkegaard called it 'the dizziness of freedom,' and it's perversely pleasurable more »
2016-05-20 | Kant declared fashion "foolish." To Kierkegaard, outer garments kept us from ascertaining inner truth. But clothes are a form of thought, freighted with meaning more »
2020-04-23 | So what does Kierkegaard have to tell our age? A lot. First, we should stop thinking of ourselves as occupying an age at all more »
2022-02-05 | In 1843, Kierkegaard published Fear and Trembling and predicted no one would read it. Why do we keep returning to this bizarre little book? more »
2021-02-06 | The ur-existentialist. Kierkegaard was torn by his desires for recognition and for walking the path of a self-denying Christian more »
2020-01-02 | Existentialism in the ring. After Gordon Marino found no success as a boxer, Kierkegaard’s works led him back to philosophy — and saved his life more »
2019-03-29 | A Kierkegaardian biography of Kierkegaard — an appealing concept. And yet a “sphere of infinite depth” turns out to be a poor model for lucid writing more »
2016-10-28 | Kierkegaard broke off his engagement claiming to be a young cad in need of a “lusty young girl.” But it was more than that. His entire philosophy can be found in that renunciation more »
2018-03-22 | “The two ways," Kierkegaard wrote. "One is to suffer; the other is to become a professor of the fact that another suffered.” But few suffered as much as the woman who loved him more »
2017-11-15 | Kierkegaard is a favorite of angsty adolescents. But it is adults, more than ever, who can most benefit from the ethical seriousness of his life and work more »