The Humor of Kierkegaard: An Anthology

Who might reasonably be nominated as the funniest philosopher of all time? With this anthology, Thomas Oden provisionally declares Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)—despite his enduring stereotype as the melancholy, despairing Dane—as, among philosophers, the most amusing.


Kierkegaard not only explored comic perception to its depths but also practiced the art of comedy as astutely as any writer of his time. This collection shows how his theory of comedy is integrated into his practice of ...