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Dagboeken
Vanaf zijn eenentwintigste heeft de Deense schrijver-filosoof Søren Kierkegaard een dagboek bijgehouden. Hij schreef onophoudelijk de reflecties neer op wat hem als essentieel voorkwam. Deze notities zijn voor veel hedendaagse lezers ongetwijfeld boeiender, want directer en leesbaarder dan zijn bekende grote werken.
Kierkegaard wordt beschouwd als de rebelse voorloper van het existentialisme. In zijn eigen tijd ging hij door voor een zonderling en een onruststoker. Hij richtte zijn kritiek vooral op de heersende kerkelijke en burgerlijke instituties.
Tijdens zijn leven was zijn invloed gering. Pas in onze eeuw werd Kierkegaard een inspirerende wegbereider naar een nieuwe wijsbegeerte. Daarnaast bestaat er grote belangstelling voor het raadsel van de mens Kierkegaard, die zich in zijn Dagboeken zo openlijk blootstelde en analyseerde: zijn psychologisch inzicht en vlijmscherp zelfonderzoek zijn onovertroffen.
Uit de omvangrijke dagboeken heeft Sybren Polet nu een keuze gemaakt waarin het accent ligt op de schrijver Kierkegaard, en niet op de theoloog en filosoof. En als schrijver van deze notities kan hij in één adem genoemd worden met Pascal, Novalis, Nietzsche en Valéry.
*Ik heb Kierkegaard steeds weer gelezen en herlezen. Ik moet hem wel blijven herlezen om zelf te kunnen schrijven.-Franz Kafka
*Kierkegaard en Nietzsche: het blijft een uitzonderlijke list van de geschiedenis dat juist van het werk van deze schuwe, teruggetrokken, eenzame figuren zo'n ontzaglijke invloed is uitgegaan, op de literatuur, op de filosofie, op het denken over de grenzen en mogelijkheden van de westerse cultuur.-Karl Jaspers
*Schrijven in zijn dagboek was voor hem zoiets als psychografisch ademhalen. Altijd heeft hij pakkende, treffende beeldspraak bij de hand. -Maarten 't Hart
Kierkegaard wordt beschouwd als de rebelse voorloper van het existentialisme. In zijn eigen tijd ging hij door voor een zonderling en een onruststoker. Hij richtte zijn kritiek vooral op de heersende kerkelijke en burgerlijke instituties.
Tijdens zijn leven was zijn invloed gering. Pas in onze eeuw werd Kierkegaard een inspirerende wegbereider naar een nieuwe wijsbegeerte. Daarnaast bestaat er grote belangstelling voor het raadsel van de mens Kierkegaard, die zich in zijn Dagboeken zo openlijk blootstelde en analyseerde: zijn psychologisch inzicht en vlijmscherp zelfonderzoek zijn onovertroffen.
Uit de omvangrijke dagboeken heeft Sybren Polet nu een keuze gemaakt waarin het accent ligt op de schrijver Kierkegaard, en niet op de theoloog en filosoof. En als schrijver van deze notities kan hij in één adem genoemd worden met Pascal, Novalis, Nietzsche en Valéry.
*Ik heb Kierkegaard steeds weer gelezen en herlezen. Ik moet hem wel blijven herlezen om zelf te kunnen schrijven.-Franz Kafka
*Kierkegaard en Nietzsche: het blijft een uitzonderlijke list van de geschiedenis dat juist van het werk van deze schuwe, teruggetrokken, eenzame figuren zo'n ontzaglijke invloed is uitgegaan, op de literatuur, op de filosofie, op het denken over de grenzen en mogelijkheden van de westerse cultuur.-Karl Jaspers
*Schrijven in zijn dagboek was voor hem zoiets als psychografisch ademhalen. Altijd heeft hij pakkende, treffende beeldspraak bij de hand. -Maarten 't Hart
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First published January 1, 1938
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Søren Kierkegaard
1,124 books6,421 followersSøren 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 individuals when faced with life choices. His early work was written under various pseudonyms who present their own distinctive viewpoints in a complex dialogue.
Kierkegaard left the task of discovering the meaning of his works to the reader, because "the task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted". Scholars have interpreted Kierkegaard variously as an existentialist, neo-orthodoxist, postmodernist, humanist, and individualist.
Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, he is an influential figure in contemporary thought.
Kierkegaard left the task of discovering the meaning of his works to the reader, because "the task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted". Scholars have interpreted Kierkegaard variously as an existentialist, neo-orthodoxist, postmodernist, humanist, and individualist.
Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, he is an influential figure in contemporary thought.
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October 23, 2013Sorry, just had to put this in. I'm in awe of SK and this book has had more influence on my thinking than I can explain.
May 15, 2009
The original existentialist. It's unfortunate that Kierkegaard's views on how religion should be practiced are completely at odds with mainstream Christianity today.
April 23, 2011
I had to skim through this because I was only looking for the bits on irony. Still it is ace -- except for when he says girls are stupid!!!!
May 16, 2021
This book was a collection of various excerpts from the author. It was OK and had some interesting concepts. Nothing hooked me with a "This is amazing" feeling.
April 3, 2019
What. A. Book!!
Dr. Alexander Dru's introduction and selection (I cannot imagine reading through the whole thing-- this 500 pages long beast was an abridged version!) was crafty and insightful, drawing upon elements of Kierkegaard's life to provide a fair look at his philosophy and theology. I can find very little on Dr. Dru online, and I do not have too much time to find out much more, but his work here was amazing.
And Kierkegaard's journals are even better. I am no existentialist myself, far from it, but one can see why a personality like Kierkegaard's would come up with such a system (particularly in front of such a cold and dead State church as the XIX century Danish one). Having encountered his philosophical corpus before, meeting the author "face to face" through his most personal and private memories is an incomparable pleasure. The breadth of topics and the bumpy feeling that a journal has are perhaps its only drawbacks, but the immense amount of wisdom and critical "wit", as he would put it, makes up for it. A couple of amazing quotes, relating to politics and/or theology, which I particularly liked:
"There is great difficulty in the way of my becoming a priest [he never did-- scary, as I am in this same situation!]. If I undertook it I should certainly runt he danger of coming to grief as I did over my engagement On the other hand it has been made difficult for me to live entirely and peacefully withdrawn in the country, for I am the same somewhat embittered and as a result I need the enchantment of literary composition in order to be able to forget all the crude trivialities of life.
It becomes more and more clear to me that, constituted as I am, I am never successful in fulfilling my ideals whilst in another sense I become, humanly speaking, more than those ideals. Most people's ideals are great and extraordinary which they never achieve. I am altogether too melancholy to have such ideals. Other people would laugh at my ideals. For example it is perfectly true to say that my ideal was to marry and simply live for the marriage [!]. Then, by despairing of being able to achieve so much, I became an author, and perhaps an author of importance. My other ideal is to be a country parson [!!], to live quietly in the country and devote my life to the little circle of those around me-- and then, because I despair of success, it is quite possible that I shall achieve something which seems much greater."
"Almost everything that flourishes now under the name of science (particularly natural science) is not science at all but curiosity. --in the end all corruption will come from the natural sciences--. Many of its admirers will believe that if an examination is conducted microscopically then it is serious science. A foolish, superstitious belief in the microscope; microscopic observation only makes curiosity more absurd than ever.
That a man should simply and profoundly say that he cannot understand how consciousness comes into existence is perfectly natural. But that a man should glue his eye to a microscope and stare and stare and stare, still not being able to see how it happens, is ridiculous, and particularly so when it is supposed to be serious... even the art of printing is an almost satirical invention, for since when, oh God, have there been so many people with something to say!".
Many more, but I would not want to ruin anyone's experience of encountering these pearls on their own!
Dr. Alexander Dru's introduction and selection (I cannot imagine reading through the whole thing-- this 500 pages long beast was an abridged version!) was crafty and insightful, drawing upon elements of Kierkegaard's life to provide a fair look at his philosophy and theology. I can find very little on Dr. Dru online, and I do not have too much time to find out much more, but his work here was amazing.
And Kierkegaard's journals are even better. I am no existentialist myself, far from it, but one can see why a personality like Kierkegaard's would come up with such a system (particularly in front of such a cold and dead State church as the XIX century Danish one). Having encountered his philosophical corpus before, meeting the author "face to face" through his most personal and private memories is an incomparable pleasure. The breadth of topics and the bumpy feeling that a journal has are perhaps its only drawbacks, but the immense amount of wisdom and critical "wit", as he would put it, makes up for it. A couple of amazing quotes, relating to politics and/or theology, which I particularly liked:
"There is great difficulty in the way of my becoming a priest [he never did-- scary, as I am in this same situation!]. If I undertook it I should certainly runt he danger of coming to grief as I did over my engagement On the other hand it has been made difficult for me to live entirely and peacefully withdrawn in the country, for I am the same somewhat embittered and as a result I need the enchantment of literary composition in order to be able to forget all the crude trivialities of life.
It becomes more and more clear to me that, constituted as I am, I am never successful in fulfilling my ideals whilst in another sense I become, humanly speaking, more than those ideals. Most people's ideals are great and extraordinary which they never achieve. I am altogether too melancholy to have such ideals. Other people would laugh at my ideals. For example it is perfectly true to say that my ideal was to marry and simply live for the marriage [!]. Then, by despairing of being able to achieve so much, I became an author, and perhaps an author of importance. My other ideal is to be a country parson [!!], to live quietly in the country and devote my life to the little circle of those around me-- and then, because I despair of success, it is quite possible that I shall achieve something which seems much greater."
"Almost everything that flourishes now under the name of science (particularly natural science) is not science at all but curiosity. --in the end all corruption will come from the natural sciences--. Many of its admirers will believe that if an examination is conducted microscopically then it is serious science. A foolish, superstitious belief in the microscope; microscopic observation only makes curiosity more absurd than ever.
That a man should simply and profoundly say that he cannot understand how consciousness comes into existence is perfectly natural. But that a man should glue his eye to a microscope and stare and stare and stare, still not being able to see how it happens, is ridiculous, and particularly so when it is supposed to be serious... even the art of printing is an almost satirical invention, for since when, oh God, have there been so many people with something to say!".
Many more, but I would not want to ruin anyone's experience of encountering these pearls on their own!
October 13, 2024
"How awful it would be on Judgment Day when all souls return to life again—then to stand completely alone, alone and unknown to All, All."
"Great is my grief, limitless; no one knows it except God in Heaven, and he will not comfort me; no one can comfort me save God in Heaven, and he will not have mercy upon me."
"And then when I grew dizzy as I gazed down into her infinite affection—for nothing, after all, is as infinite as love—or when her emotions were not so profound, but danced over the deep in the light play of love—what I have lost: the only thing I loved;"
"If I hadn't also felt bliss in melancholy and sadness I couldn't possibly have lived without her. On those days—few and far between—when I was really humanly happy I always longed for her indescribably, this girl whom I had loved so much and who, moreover, had touched me so deeply by her pleading."
...I wished I were far away, but it was impossible for me to leave.
November 8, 2016
Excerpts from the journals of one whose thought ranged so widely, who touched upon everything. The joy of Kierkegaard's journals is viewing the gestation of the thoughts that would come to be expressed in his published works.
Kierkegaard was ever troubled with language and communication. Being on the side of God, having "lived with God as one lives with one's father," Kierkegaard realized how he was condemned to silence in relation to the people, the masses, those of the ethical. The singular individual is fated to wander outside in the wilderness, there to move with God. And yet, as the journals so often convey, Kierkegaard at times wanted so badly to reach out, to communicate his secret, his individuality, with another. But each decision to speak eventually faultered upon its impossibility. This Kierkegaard ever suffered, only later in life fully understanding that life is exactly this suffering. And so was he on the way to becoming what he would have called a Christian.
Life is such suffering - it is passion. It is not about quantities of experience, but rather of qualitative depths and heights. Life is about the intensity of living, of feeling, of passion or suffering. For suffering too may be joyful.
Kierkegaard wrote that no one will find an explanation of the meaningfulness of his life, even in his papers and journals, because it is passion that makes life meaningful. Passion moves through difference, through the singular suffering of each individual's life. It cannot be spoken, except perhaps through a sort of silence, outside of speech via universals or concepts. We may only infer, and more importantly, be led into the depths of the silence of our own lives, to suffer the intense passion that is the life of the individual in relation with God. Kierkegaard's journals help to lead us down such a path leading outside. His journals speak to us, however contradictorily, a silence.
Kierkegaard was ever troubled with language and communication. Being on the side of God, having "lived with God as one lives with one's father," Kierkegaard realized how he was condemned to silence in relation to the people, the masses, those of the ethical. The singular individual is fated to wander outside in the wilderness, there to move with God. And yet, as the journals so often convey, Kierkegaard at times wanted so badly to reach out, to communicate his secret, his individuality, with another. But each decision to speak eventually faultered upon its impossibility. This Kierkegaard ever suffered, only later in life fully understanding that life is exactly this suffering. And so was he on the way to becoming what he would have called a Christian.
Life is such suffering - it is passion. It is not about quantities of experience, but rather of qualitative depths and heights. Life is about the intensity of living, of feeling, of passion or suffering. For suffering too may be joyful.
Kierkegaard wrote that no one will find an explanation of the meaningfulness of his life, even in his papers and journals, because it is passion that makes life meaningful. Passion moves through difference, through the singular suffering of each individual's life. It cannot be spoken, except perhaps through a sort of silence, outside of speech via universals or concepts. We may only infer, and more importantly, be led into the depths of the silence of our own lives, to suffer the intense passion that is the life of the individual in relation with God. Kierkegaard's journals help to lead us down such a path leading outside. His journals speak to us, however contradictorily, a silence.
September 7, 2020
I would have been more interested in Kierkegaard's philosophical development or challenges against the Hegelians, but this selection focuses much more often on Kierkegaard's radical conception of Christianity. It is a challenging vision, and his intensity and frustration with the world around him resonates with me, but ultimately the picture he paints is grotesque. God is portrayed much like a sadist, and Kierkegaard might have even embraced the atheist's ethical critiques of the divine--instead of using such critiques to show that a loving God does not exist, Kierkegaard would insist that we must believe in God's love despite the contrary evidence, and that this is what pleases God most.
The caricature of Kierkegaard as a tortured genius comes through loud and clear through these entries--though he more often seems petty and narcissistic rather than wise, and no drop of compassion can be found in his laments. I always felt like I would identify with Kierkegaard's passion and just disagree with him intellectually, but instead I sense deep similarity in our vices, and take these pages as a warning to avoid my darker demons.
The caricature of Kierkegaard as a tortured genius comes through loud and clear through these entries--though he more often seems petty and narcissistic rather than wise, and no drop of compassion can be found in his laments. I always felt like I would identify with Kierkegaard's passion and just disagree with him intellectually, but instead I sense deep similarity in our vices, and take these pages as a warning to avoid my darker demons.
September 29, 2021
For all you younguns who have ever contemplated suicide/when the frozen north of Denmark is enuf.
S.K. never contemplated a thought that he didn't commit to paper. Here he rails against the church, the newspapers, his unrequited love, Regina, and makes the discovery that irony, not industry, science, and certainly not religion, is the defining element of the modern age. A must-read for all those who distrust reality.
S.K. never contemplated a thought that he didn't commit to paper. Here he rails against the church, the newspapers, his unrequited love, Regina, and makes the discovery that irony, not industry, science, and certainly not religion, is the defining element of the modern age. A must-read for all those who distrust reality.
October 29, 2007
gave me greater insight into the complicated man i have been intrigued with since my college days
October 28, 2012
Frankly, Kierkegaard is weird and confusing, and that is why I love him. The organization was helpful, and generally, the explanatory notes following the journal entries were helpful.
May 15, 2015
"A ansiedade é a vertigem da liberdade".
(Soren Kierkegaard)
February 5, 2025
SK's thoughts in this diary were never intended to be published. His thoughts were so profound...so ironic...so witty. There were times after I finished reading, that I just sat in my chair and ruminated. Sometimes I felt as if I really understood (and agreed) with what SK was saying; other times, I vehemently disagreed with him; and yet, at other times, I can't say that I disagreed with him but rather, I just didn't understand what he was trying to say.
SK's dry wit made me chuckle and the first entry is a perfect example of his wit (although, he probably was serious). "I have just returned from a party of which I was the life and soul; witty banter flowed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me - but I came away, indeed that dash should be as long as the radii of the earth's orbit ----- wanting to shoot myself."
SK had a very melancholy spirit. It's hard to imagine that a father would share his own melancholy thoughts with a son that more than likely had already exhibited that same spirit. Was SK's melancholy spirit felt more deeply because of his father's sharing? We cannot know the answer to this question, but I thought it unfair to burden a child with that. SK mentioned his father's melancholy spirit several times so it did impact his life but he it quite possible that SK wouldn't have been the thinker/writer he was without it.
SK's dry wit made me chuckle and the first entry is a perfect example of his wit (although, he probably was serious). "I have just returned from a party of which I was the life and soul; witty banter flowed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me - but I came away, indeed that dash should be as long as the radii of the earth's orbit ----- wanting to shoot myself."
SK had a very melancholy spirit. It's hard to imagine that a father would share his own melancholy thoughts with a son that more than likely had already exhibited that same spirit. Was SK's melancholy spirit felt more deeply because of his father's sharing? We cannot know the answer to this question, but I thought it unfair to burden a child with that. SK mentioned his father's melancholy spirit several times so it did impact his life but he it quite possible that SK wouldn't have been the thinker/writer he was without it.
August 4, 2023
It's so entertaining to read the man in his own private words. Such a self-serious character, and kind of a big man-baby, really, but his dilemmas are so frighteningly contemporary. They include: Being super popular and well-liked at parties, but still feeling empty when you get home, getting stuck in vapid conversations with boring people, struggling to commit to a girl you've been low-key dating for 4 years, being really critical of your local bishop and his boiler-plate totally bourgeois Lutheran sermons, struggling to move on from aforementioned girlfriend years later even after YOU'RE the one to have broken things off, I mean the dude basically lived the whole Millennial nightmare way before it was kosher.
Soren was a true original. It's true. What an amusing guy. Dude needed to chill tho. No doubt about that.
Soren was a true original. It's true. What an amusing guy. Dude needed to chill tho. No doubt about that.
February 4, 2023
4 stars for me, 2 stars for most others.
This was a lot like panning for gold. There's a lot of uninteresting journal entries, but then you hit some serious nuggets. Especially towards the end, I found myself highlighting a ton of entries that were really speaking to me.
I wish he and I were alive at the same time. It would have been nice to have met him and have spoken with him about some of his tortured ideas.
It was really fun to see his entries as time went on leading up to his death. To See how his thoughts evolved.
The last few journal entries the year before he died really stuck out to me.
This was a lot like panning for gold. There's a lot of uninteresting journal entries, but then you hit some serious nuggets. Especially towards the end, I found myself highlighting a ton of entries that were really speaking to me.
I wish he and I were alive at the same time. It would have been nice to have met him and have spoken with him about some of his tortured ideas.
It was really fun to see his entries as time went on leading up to his death. To See how his thoughts evolved.
The last few journal entries the year before he died really stuck out to me.
July 4, 2024
Hard, hard, hard. Kierkegaard is obtuse enough when writing to a public audience - reading his private thoughts to himself was a big challenge. At the same time, it was very humanizing to see him pine after a woman, grumble about rivals, and constantly second-guess himself. I might not have gotten all the insight I was looking for, but I do feel like I understand my favorite philosopher a bit better.
September 12, 2021
کیرکگار در یادداشتهای واپسین سالهایش، اندکی از هذیانگویی (البته فقط در بخشی از آن) دوری جسته و حرفهایش را شارپ و جسورانه میزند. او مسیحیت را از دید خودش و گویا، همانطور که باید باشد توصیف میکند و دیگران را نیز بدان دعوت مینماید.
August 31, 2023
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August 26, 2025
Χριστιανικός υπαρξισμός -- στη καλλίτερη μορφή του.
September 29, 2025
Need to read more diaries of people I find fascinating. To get inside the brain of Kierkegaard like this was a treat, and I found myself relating to many of his thoughts and his opinions.
May 11, 2018
It started out quite interesting and then fizzled half way through.
July 10, 2023
"What good would it do me if truth stood before me, cold and naked, not caring whether I recognised her or not, and producing in me a shudder of fear rather than a trusting devotion?"
I taped this one on the wall beside my bed:
"I will not grieve over the past- for why grieve? I will work on with energy and not waste time grieving, like the man caught in the quicksands who began by calculating how far down he had already sunk, forgetting that all the while he was sinking still deeper."
"People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood."
"I have just returned from a party of which I was the life and soul; wit poured from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me-but I went away- and the dash should be as long as the earths orbit---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- and wanted to shoot myself."
The person who owned this book before me underlined this:
"If one wishes to succeed, the secret of life is to chatter freely about all one wishes to do and how one is always being prevented-and then do nothing."
"I too have a heart and I have tried to preserve it, and therefore made every effort to keep it in the proper place, so as not to have it on my lips at one moment, and on my sleeve at the next and never in the proper place, and not to confuse having a heart with sentimental twaddle."
I taped this one on the wall beside my bed:
"I will not grieve over the past- for why grieve? I will work on with energy and not waste time grieving, like the man caught in the quicksands who began by calculating how far down he had already sunk, forgetting that all the while he was sinking still deeper."
"People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood."
"I have just returned from a party of which I was the life and soul; wit poured from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me-but I went away- and the dash should be as long as the earths orbit---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- and wanted to shoot myself."
The person who owned this book before me underlined this:
"If one wishes to succeed, the secret of life is to chatter freely about all one wishes to do and how one is always being prevented-and then do nothing."
"I too have a heart and I have tried to preserve it, and therefore made every effort to keep it in the proper place, so as not to have it on my lips at one moment, and on my sleeve at the next and never in the proper place, and not to confuse having a heart with sentimental twaddle."
April 14, 2017
Anybody preparing to read Kierkegaard's other works would do well to first familiarise themselves with his journals.
Similarly to Nietsche, Kierkegaard's personal story is integral to an understanding of his polemics. His alienation as a thinker arose from his relentless inability to silence his own need to make sense of his context.
The suffering that he bore because of this incapacity to suppress his reactions against what he perceived around him was both his curse and his genius. His discursive contribution cost him dearly, but has thereby alleviated much pain for those that have engaged with him subsequently.
I am personally both saddened and comforted by his contribution. This book is very precious to me.
Similarly to Nietsche, Kierkegaard's personal story is integral to an understanding of his polemics. His alienation as a thinker arose from his relentless inability to silence his own need to make sense of his context.
The suffering that he bore because of this incapacity to suppress his reactions against what he perceived around him was both his curse and his genius. His discursive contribution cost him dearly, but has thereby alleviated much pain for those that have engaged with him subsequently.
I am personally both saddened and comforted by his contribution. This book is very precious to me.
October 6, 2017
After three books of Kiergaard, this book was a must in order to follow his thoughts in many ways, I think i should've read him before all his books it will give you a clear perspective to understand his depressive way, at the end the though of kiergaard before his death was so shocking he believed that man should stop procreating, because God didn't want more unredeemed sinners to come into the world. This statement is the most frightening theory expressed by a religious man.
June 20, 2019
The complete journals and papers of Kierkegaard are multi volume.
This is a compact view into what is contained in the them. To appreciate Kierkegaard is to experience his most intimate reflections in his journals which span from the mundane to the profound, from the immediate to the eternal. To me an acquaintance with the journals is a good first step in appreciating his multitude of published writings.
This is a compact view into what is contained in the them. To appreciate Kierkegaard is to experience his most intimate reflections in his journals which span from the mundane to the profound, from the immediate to the eternal. To me an acquaintance with the journals is a good first step in appreciating his multitude of published writings.
May 6, 2015
The book reads like a book of quotes, organized into topics. There are some gems in there, and the footnotes help to understand some of the context that Kierkegaard wrote in.
It's a nice look 'behind the curtain' at some of Kierkegaard's thoughts. It doesn't dig very deeply into any of the subjects it presents, however, so readers familiar with Kierkegaard might find it a bit light.
It's a nice look 'behind the curtain' at some of Kierkegaard's thoughts. It doesn't dig very deeply into any of the subjects it presents, however, so readers familiar with Kierkegaard might find it a bit light.
May 3, 2018
I read this just out of high school and never quite recovered. The selection is brief compared with the immensity of the source material but I had not idea how large that source was. I recently reread this in a couple of days and relieved my youth. I wish I had greater access to the more recent translations but life is short.
March 31, 2008
a humorous misanthrope.
July 9, 2012
Definitely a different way to look at life. Good Book.
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