Kierkegaard was driven to write "The Book on Adler" after news spread that a Danish pastor, Adolph P. Adler, claimed to have experienced a revelation in which Christ dictated a new doctrine. Like many others, Kierkegaard was intrigued by Adler - but for different reasons than most. Over the eight ye[...]

For over a century, the Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) 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 thought, psychology, and contemporary aesthetics, especially literary theory. De[...]

Provocations contains a little of everything from Kierkegaard s prodigious output: his famously cantankerous (yet wryly humorous) attacks on what he calls the mediocre shell of conventional Christianity, his brilliantly pithy parables, his wise (and witty) sayings. Most significantly, it brings to a[...]

Collected here in one volume are three of Sren Kierkegaards most important works: Fear and Trembling, Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing, and Sickness Unto Death. Fear and Trembling: In our time nobody is content to stop with faith but wants to go further. It would perhaps be rash to ask where the[...]

Forfatteren og filosoffen Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) var fire gange i Berlin. Hans første og længste ophold i Berlin var i vinteren 1841-1842, hvor han var fire og en halv måned i den hastig voksende by. I maj måned 1843, i maj 1845 og igen i maj 1846 var han kun på korte ophold i Berlin, n[...]

While ostensibly commenting on the work of a contemporary novelist, Kierkegaard used this review as a critique of his society and age. The influence of this short piece has been far-reaching. The apocalyptic final sections are the source for central notions in Heidegger's "Being and Time". Later rea[...]

I vinen er sandhed eller In vino veritas er, sammen med Platons Symposion og Xenofons Symposion, en af verdenslitteraturens perler i den genre. I vinen er sandhed er en fortælling om en festmiddag om sommeren for fem mænd, hvor der spises og drikkes og holdes taler om kvinden. De fem mænd er de l[...]

In "Spiritual Writings", renowned Oxford theologian George Pattison presents previously neglected Christian writings that will forever alter our understanding of the great philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. In fact, Pattison argues that the Kierkegaard known to the history of modern ideas is, in an impo[...]

One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, "The Sickness Unto Death" is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity[...]