Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, literary stylist and social critic. Born in 1813 in Copenhagen, his philosophical work addressed living as a single individual and the importance of personal choice. A famously fierce critic of the idealist thinkers of his time, including Hegel, Goethe, and Hans Christian Andersen, he is regarded as the first existentialist philosopher, and his Fear and Trembling is one of the classics of modern philosophy. Here you will find insights from his greatest works, in the "Great Thinkers on Modern Life" series, which highlights ideas most relevant to ordinary, everyday dilemmas.
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Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, literary stylist and social critic. Born in 1813 in Copenhagen, his philosophical work addressed living as a single individual and the importance of personal choice. A famously fierce critic of the idealist thinkers of his time, including Hegel, Goethe, and Hans Christian Andersen, he is regarded as the first existentialist philosopher, and his Fear and Trembling is one of the classics of modern philosophy. Here you will find insights from his greatest works, in the "Great Thinkers on Modern Life" series, which highlights ideas most relevant to ordinary, everyday dilemmas.
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Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard

by Robert Ferguson
Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard

by Robert Ferguson

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Overview

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, literary stylist and social critic. Born in 1813 in Copenhagen, his philosophical work addressed living as a single individual and the importance of personal choice. A famously fierce critic of the idealist thinkers of his time, including Hegel, Goethe, and Hans Christian Andersen, he is regarded as the first existentialist philosopher, and his Fear and Trembling is one of the classics of modern philosophy. Here you will find insights from his greatest works, in the "Great Thinkers on Modern Life" series, which highlights ideas most relevant to ordinary, everyday dilemmas.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781605988047
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Publication date: 07/15/2015
Pages: 120
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Robert Ferguson is the author of the Viking history The Hammer and the Cross and biographer of Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun. He has published two novels in Norwegian and is also an award-winning dramatist.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 How to Wake Up 9

2 How to See Through Things 19

3 How to Avoid Living in the Past 29

4 Why We Should Cultivate Dissatisfaction 41

5 On Not Thinking Too Much 47

6 When to Say Nothing 57

7 How to Deal With Despair 67

8 How to Think About Death 77

Conclusion: Choosing To Choose 85

Homework 91

Acknowledgements 99

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