Tag Archives: Kierkegaard

The Editor and the Escritoire

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Lee

A less extraordinary mind would have been incapable of worrying so much about an old desk and would never have made the discovery. Victor Eremita, fictitious editor of Søren Kierkegaard’s Either/Or, tells the story of how he came across the … Continue reading →

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Kierkegaard vs the Modern World

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Lee

(A Review of Sylvia Walsh’s Kierkegaard and Religion: Personality, Character, and Virtue) Søren Kierkagaard is a difficult thinker in more ways than one. Not only is his writing full of abstractions and speculative notions and references to Hegel, but he … Continue reading →

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Notes on Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling after reading Joakim Garff

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Lee

Abraham would have been terrifying because if we had met him we would never have glimpsed his inner life. We would not have seen the man of faith. We would have seen a man who was prepared to murder his … Continue reading →

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