The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His Journals"The primary source for any understanding of either the man or his thought." — The Times (London) Literary Supplement |
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... melancholy and the microscopic analysis to which he submitted his thoughts and feelings and experience is in danger of concealing as much as it reveals. For from the outside nothing of this appeared. No one, he triumphantly asserts ...
... melancholy.” The expression is misleading, and on one occasion at least, he is more precise, and adds, “from my twentieth year.” What he meant was that “we are all of us what we are to be by the time we are ten years old:” he was ...
... brothers died within a few years, and his father's melancholy could no longer be hidden, Kierkegaard brooded over his suspicions until they acquired the compulsive force of “a frightful foreboding” that in INTRODUCTION I 1.
... melancholy coagulated. Kierkegaard's father, Michael Pedersen Kierkegaard, was born in Saeding, a hamlet in the poorest district on the moors of Jutland, where the peasants scraped a bare existence from the soil. As a child, he was ...
... melancholy which a grim theology had fastened so firmly on him that at the end of his life, when he had been Bishop of Aalborg for some years, he begged to be relieved of his office, unable to bear the responsibility any longer. The ...
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The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His Journals Søren Kierkegaard,Alexander Dru No preview available - 2003 |