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unusual facts about Kierkegaard



A Short Life of Kierkegaard

Lowrie was commissioned by the editor of Oxford University Press Charles Williams to write the biography and to translate into English for the first time several of Kierkegaard's seminal works in full, including Either/Or and Philosophical Fragments.

Agustina Bessa-Luís

Jens Staubrand: Kierkegaard International Bibliography Music Works and Plays, Copenhagen 2009.

Either/Or

The aesthete, according to Kierkegaard's model, will eventually find himself in "despair", a psychological state (explored further in Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness Unto Death) that results from a recognition of the limits of the aesthetic approach to life.

Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library

Along with the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, it is one of two internationally-significant research facilities devoted to the study of Kierkegaard.

Leap of faith

Kierkegaard's use of the term "leap" was in response to "Lessing's Ditch" which was discussed by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) in his theological writings.

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus

A quotation concerning Tarquinius and the poppy allegory appears in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.

Madamina, il catalogo è questo

Kierkegaard discusses the aria in the section "The Immediate Stages of the Erotic, or Musical Erotic" of his Either/Or.

Present age

The indie rock band Arcade Fire have cited Kierkegaard's writings on "the present age" as a major influence for their 2013 album Reflektor.

Richard Kroner

Kroner's ideas on Hegel, including his slant from Kierkegaard, were taken up by some existentialist thinkers, including Lev Shestov and Nikolai Berdyaev.

Søren Kierkegaard Society

The Søren Kierkegaard Society (U.S.A.) is a philosophical society whose purpose is to promote the study of the philosophy and theology of Søren Kierkegaard in the United States.

Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood

In Atheism and the Rejection of God: Contemporary Philosophy and "The Brothers Karamazov" (1977) and Faith and Ambiguity (1984), he explored continental thinkers including Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Camus and Weil.

Sylvia Kierkegaard

Sylvia Kierkegaard is Professor at the Communications University of China, Professor-Research Fellow at ILaws (UK), University of Southampton, Visiting Professor at University of Southampton (UK), Adjunct professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University among others.

The Concept of Anxiety

Kierkegaard argued about this in both Repetition and Fear and Trembling where he said philosophy must not define faith.


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