Soren Kierkegaard

Christianity

despair

Valentine's Day

existentialism

angst

Friedrich Nietzsche

foreign language

snobbery

pronunciation

truth

great dane

Dane (Danish Person)

is by far the most profound thinker of the last century. He was a saint.

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

explicitly seized and penetratingly thought through the problem of existence.

SZ rehearses numerous Kierkegaardian themes, three of which Heidegger explicitly identifies. (1) He touts Kierkegaard with having “explicitly seized and penetratingly thought through the problem of existence” (SZ 235n).

is the thinker who no one has gone further than in analyzing anxiety.

(2) He observes that “no one has gone further than Kierkegaard in analyzing anxiety,” and, indeed, much of Heidegger’s analysis of anxiety in the face of nothing (in contrast to fear of something) can be traced to Kierkegaard’s Concept of Anxiety (SZ 190n).

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Soren Kierkegaard