Either/Or : Part 1 Kierkegaard's Writings by Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong, Soren Kierkegaard

Either/Or : Part 1 Kierkegaard's Writings



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Either/Or : Part 1 Kierkegaard's Writings Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong, Soren Kierkegaard ebook
Page: 728
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0691020419, 9780691020419


That is actually the lesson of Job, as far as anyone can tell the lesson (it's a very confusing book). One of the things I've noticed in my years of teaching is how few people come to the craft with much understanding of the context, the cultural backdrop, the history of ideas that informs works of art now. We didn't trade email addresses, as neither of us had one of those either. After reading the preface to Either/Or, as soon as I began the “Diapsalmata,” the section from which I draw the following excerpts, I was struck. This is kind of like The kind of readers who sit up late with Ulysses, or who consider Kierkegaard's Either/Or to be beach reading. The works of the deity are too great for me; I always get lost in the details. This entry was posted in culture and tagged books, history, Kierkegaard, quotations, Soren Kierkegaard, writing. The editor refers to the first set of writing as the writings of “A,” in light of the fact that he has no name for the author. And the culmination of these impressions, gleaned while reading the “Diapsalmata” and upon finishing it, Either/Or as a compilation of two “found texts,” arranged and published by an unnamed editor (Preface). Law, “The Place, Role, and Function of the 'Ultimatum' of Either/Or Part Two, in Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Writings;” » 1. On returning from Berlin, Kierkegaard published Either/Or under a pseudonym, which presented, for the first time, his basic ideas on existential philosophy. What's more, of these That disenchantment is the loss of the Medieval sense of the numinous as being part of everyday life. Later, he Meanwhile, the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre Foundation in Copenhagen is working on a definitive edition of all Kierkegaard's writings, including the journal, which will then be translated into several languages. Being something Linn Miller: I remember the very first time I read him; I was reading something from one of his works called Either/Or, and it's a piece representing the position of the aesthete, of the pleasure-seeker, and it's really a study in applied hedonism. Dr William McDonald, philosopher at the University of New England, says part of Kierkegaard's core message is that being something isn't about easy things like flag waving or church-going.