Søren Kierkegaard’s theory of despair. In The Sickness Unto Death, the Danish philosopher posed a difficult question: Is despair an essential feature of human life? You’ve probably had the ...
Kierkegaard relates a chilling parable in “The Sickness Unto Death.” An emperor summons a poor day laborer. The man never dreamed that the emperor even knew of his existence. The emperor tells him ...
In this context even unto means all the way to the extent of something, or the extreme of doing something. We find this in the King James Bible, speaking of the humility of Jesus Christ: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (Philippians 2:8) The meaning there is that Christ's obedience was so great that he would ...
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Søren Kierkegaard’s theory of despair. Melancholy, Edvard Munch, 1895.(Universal History Archive / Getty) You’ve probably had the experience—perhaps while listening to music, seeing an old friend, or ...
FEAR AND TREMBLING: Søren Kierkegaard did not make it easy for the biographer Joakim Garff, an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Søren Kierkegaard Research Center. After all, the ...
Clare Carlisle’s wonderful new biography of Søren Kierkegaard is not an easy read. If you are simply looking for the facts of Kierkegaard’s life, Alastair Hannay’s Kierkegaard: A Biography or Stephen ...
Early in life, Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard was bestowed the nickname gaflen, or “fork,” for his talent at detecting weakness in others — and his taste for prodding at it. Recently, that ...