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11 unusual facts about Søren Kierkegaard


Alastair Hannay

Hannay has translated Søren Kierkegaard, and written an intellectual biography and a monograph about his philosophy.

Colin Jeavons

In 1984, he played the existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in the "Prometheus Unbound" episode of Don Cupitt's Sea of Faith (TV series) for BBC.

Dave Breese

Søren Kierkegaard, who stressed the obligation each person has to make conscious, responsible choices among alternatives, a major tenet of existentialism.

Essence–Energies distinction

The Danish Lutheran philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, widely considered the father of existentialism, expressed (pseudonymously as John Climacus) in Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments an approach to God which holds that the Father's hypostasis (existence) has logical primacy over his ousia (essence or substance).

Existential phenomenology

Existential phenomenology is a philosophical current inspired by Martin Heidegger's 1927 work Sein und Zeit (Being and Time) and influenced by the existential work of Søren Kierkegaard and the phenomenological work of Edmund Husserl.

Heatmiser

Between songs, bassist Coomes proclaimed, 'We've got Søren Kierkegaard on guitar.'

Johannes Møllehave

His wide range of interests extends to some 40 different topics but he is particularly well known for his interest in Søren Kierkegaard, H.C. Andersen and Storm P.

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.

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.

The KNTV Show

The show is presented by two animated fictional teenagers from Eastern Europe (specifically the fictional state of "Slabovia", the "last remaining communist state in Europe"), called Kierky and Nietschze, named after Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche.


George Pattison

Pattison's works range from historical, theological and philosophical engagement with the works of Hans Lassen Martensen, Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger and Fyodor Dostoyevsky to theological studies of the aesthetics of film and the visual arts.

Gustaf-Otto Adelborg

Adelborg resembles Søren Kierkegaard, Carl Jonas Love Almquist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Vilhelm Ekelund in having published essays with primarily psychological content and religious meditations.

José Gaos

He translated to the Spanish books of philosophers like Martin Heidegger, John Dewey, Søren Kierkegaard, G. W. F. Hegel, Max Scheler, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Edmund Husserl.

Knud Nellemose

Highly productive in both stone and bronze, Nellemose created the Marble Church statues of Søren Kierkegaard (1972) and Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1988) as well as many groups of footballers.

Niels Lillelund

The second, Besat til anden side, is about a management consultant firm, while the third novel, Den Amerikanske Samler (The American Collector) takes us to New York in a hunt for a rare copy of Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or.

Peder Ludvig Møller

On 22 December 1845, Møller published an article critiquing Stages on Life's Way, a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard.