Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is...
For over a century, the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813â55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology but also, more recently, fields such as social thou...
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In diesem Band sind vier kürzere Abhandlungen Kierkegaards aus der Zeit von 1843 bis 1849 vereinigt, die jedoch nicht minder zentral sind für Kierkegaards philosophisch-theologisches Denken als die frühen großen Schriften.
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched...
Who might reasonably be nominated as the funniest philosopher of all time? With this anthology, Thomas Oden provisionally declares Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)--despite his enduring stereotype as the melancholy, despairing Dane--as, among...
Encounters with Kierkegaard is a collection of every known eyewitness account of the great Danish thinker. Through many sharp observations of family members, friends and acquaintances, supporters and opponents, the life story of this elusive and remarkabl...
The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early Either/Or , through "The Diary of the Seducer" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, on the changelessness of God's...
One of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, SA ren Kierkegaard (1814-55) often expressed himself through pseudonyms and disguises. Taken from his personal writings, the private reflections in this work reveal the development of his own thought...
Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions was the last of seven works signed by Kierkegaard and published simultaneously with an anonymously authored companion piece. Imagined Occasions both complements and stands in contrast to Kierkegaardâ...
In Philosophical Fragments the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus explored the question: What is required in order to go beyond Socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner? Written as an afterword to this work, Concluding...
There is much to be learned philosophically from this volume, but philosophical instruction was not Kierkegaardâs aim here, except in the broad sense of self-knowledge and deepened awareness. Indicating the intention of the discourses,...
In Philosophical Fragments the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus explored the question: What is required in order to go beyond Socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner? Written as an afterword to this work, Concluding...
A work that "not only treats of irony but is irony," wrote a contemporary reviewer of The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates . Presented here with Kierkegaardâs notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on...